There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
MARCEL PROUSTInstead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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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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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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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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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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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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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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