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 PROUSTLove is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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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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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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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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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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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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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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