Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
MARCEL PROUSTIf a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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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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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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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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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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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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Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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