There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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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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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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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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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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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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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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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 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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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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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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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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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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