Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
MARCEL PROUSTTo 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.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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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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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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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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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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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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