If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
MARCEL PROUSTIf a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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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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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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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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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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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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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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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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