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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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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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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Desire makes everything blossom.
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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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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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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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