Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
MARCEL PROUSTDesire makes everything blossom.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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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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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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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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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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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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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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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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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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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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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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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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