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.
MARCEL PROUSTWe must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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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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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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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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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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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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