People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
MARCEL PROUSTEverything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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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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Truth is a point of view about things.
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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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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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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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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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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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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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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 is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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