The only paradise is paradise lost.
MARCEL PROUSTMy destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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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 think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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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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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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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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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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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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