The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
MARCEL PROUSTOnly by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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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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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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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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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 we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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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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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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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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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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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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