It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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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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Truth is a point of view about 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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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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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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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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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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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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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