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 wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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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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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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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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One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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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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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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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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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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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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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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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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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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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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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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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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