You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
MARCEL PROUSTThere are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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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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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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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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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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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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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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