We love only what we do not wholly possess.
MARCEL PROUSTDo 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.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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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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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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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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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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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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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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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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