You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
MARCEL PROUSTA change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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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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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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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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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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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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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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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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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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