Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
MARCEL PROUSTWe are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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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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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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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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To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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