A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
MARCEL PROUSTThe only paradise is paradise lost.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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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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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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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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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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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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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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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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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 live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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