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.
MARCEL PROUSTIn a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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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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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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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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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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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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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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