Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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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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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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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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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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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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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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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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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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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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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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