It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
MARCEL PROUSTNine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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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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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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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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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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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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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.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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