It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
MARCEL PROUSTWe must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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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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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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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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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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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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