Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
MARCEL PROUSTWe must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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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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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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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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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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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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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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One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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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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