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.
MARCEL PROUSTAlways try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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 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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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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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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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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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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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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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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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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