We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
MARCEL PROUSTA woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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