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.
MARCEL PROUSTTruth is a point of view about things.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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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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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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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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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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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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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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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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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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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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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 creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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