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.
MARCEL PROUSTDear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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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 creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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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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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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Truth is a point of view about things.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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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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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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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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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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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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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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