No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
MARCEL PROUSTTime, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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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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When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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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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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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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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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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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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To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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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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Desire makes everything blossom.
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