Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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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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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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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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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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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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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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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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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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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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