It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
MARCEL PROUSTWhen 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.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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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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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 is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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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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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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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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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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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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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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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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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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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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