Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
MARCEL PROUSTWe are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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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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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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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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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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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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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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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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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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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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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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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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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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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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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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