We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
MARCEL PROUSTDesire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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Desire makes everything blossom.
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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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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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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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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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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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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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