People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
MARCEL PROUSTLet us be grateful to people who make us happy.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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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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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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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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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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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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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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