Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
MARCEL PROUSTWe must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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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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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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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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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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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 only paradise is paradise lost.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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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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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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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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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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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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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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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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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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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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