The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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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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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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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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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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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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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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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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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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