Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
MARCEL PROUSTHappiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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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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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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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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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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