There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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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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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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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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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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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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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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