Truth is a point of view about things.
MARCEL PROUSTThe fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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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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For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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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 woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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