The only paradise is paradise lost.
MARCEL PROUSTA picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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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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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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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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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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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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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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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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