Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
MARCEL PROUSTThe bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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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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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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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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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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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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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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