The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
MARCEL PROUSTA woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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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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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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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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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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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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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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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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