If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
MARCEL PROUSTAll our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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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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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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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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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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