People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
MARCEL PROUSTEven though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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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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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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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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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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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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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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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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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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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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