Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
MARCEL PROUSTThe courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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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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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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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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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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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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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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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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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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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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