Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
MARCEL PROUSTTime passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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 becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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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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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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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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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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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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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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