We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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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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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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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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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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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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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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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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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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