It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
MARCEL PROUSTWe live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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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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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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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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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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