No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
MARCEL PROUSTReality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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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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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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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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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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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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