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.
MARCEL PROUSTAs 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.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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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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For 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.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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