We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
MARCEL PROUSTNo man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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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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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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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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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 artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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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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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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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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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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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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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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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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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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