Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
MARCEL PROUSTIt is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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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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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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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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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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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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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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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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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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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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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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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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