All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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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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The 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.
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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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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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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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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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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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