People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
MARCEL PROUSTWe love only what we do not wholly possess.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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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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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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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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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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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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