If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
MARCEL PROUSTWe must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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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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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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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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Desire makes everything blossom.
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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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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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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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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.
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Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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