Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
MARCEL PROUST
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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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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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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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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Desire makes everything blossom.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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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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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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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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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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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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