The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
MARCEL PROUSTThere are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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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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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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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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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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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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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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