Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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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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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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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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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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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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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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