We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
MARCEL PROUSTDeath is in truth an illness from which we recover
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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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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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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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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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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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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Desire makes everything blossom.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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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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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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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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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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