All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
MARCEL PROUSTTime passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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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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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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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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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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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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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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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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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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