Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
MARCEL PROUSTLike many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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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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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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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 real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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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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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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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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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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