It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
MARCEL PROUSTThe time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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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 bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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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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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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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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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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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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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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