No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
MARCEL PROUSTWe must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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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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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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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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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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