We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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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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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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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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 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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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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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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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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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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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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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 is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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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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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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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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