We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
MARCEL PROUSTHappiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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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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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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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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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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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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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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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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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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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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