The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
MARCEL PROUSTTime, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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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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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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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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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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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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Desire makes everything blossom.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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