If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
MARCEL PROUSTLove ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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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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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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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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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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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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