If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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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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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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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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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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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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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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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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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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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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