It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
MARCEL PROUSTTime, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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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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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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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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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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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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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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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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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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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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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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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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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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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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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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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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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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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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