It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
MARCEL PROUSTLet us be grateful to people who make us happy.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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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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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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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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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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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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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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