The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
MARCEL PROUSTWe must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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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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We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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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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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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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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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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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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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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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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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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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 only paradise is paradise lost.
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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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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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