We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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 highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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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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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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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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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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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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Truth is a point of view about things.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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