My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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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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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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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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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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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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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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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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