Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
MARCEL PROUSTYou can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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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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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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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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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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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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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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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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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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