Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
MARCEL PROUSTIt has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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Desire makes everything blossom.
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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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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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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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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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