Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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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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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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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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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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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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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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There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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