The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
MARCEL PROUSTYour soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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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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There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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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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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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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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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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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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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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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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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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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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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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