If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
MARCEL PROUSTPeople wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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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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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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