Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
MARCEL PROUSTDesire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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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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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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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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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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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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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 healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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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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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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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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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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