People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
MARCEL PROUSTThe creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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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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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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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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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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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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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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