Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
MARCEL PROUSTWe are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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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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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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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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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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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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Truth is a point of view about things.
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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 only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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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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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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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 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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