You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
MARCEL PROUSTFor each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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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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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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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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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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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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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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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new 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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