One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
MARCEL PROUSTAll our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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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 don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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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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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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