There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
MARCEL PROUSTNo man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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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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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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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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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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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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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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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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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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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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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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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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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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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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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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