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.
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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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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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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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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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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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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