The only paradise is paradise lost.
MARCEL PROUSTLike many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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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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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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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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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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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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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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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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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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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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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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