The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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 are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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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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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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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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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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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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Truth is a point of view about things.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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