The only paradise is paradise lost.
MARCEL PROUSTIf we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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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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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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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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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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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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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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