Truth is a point of view about things.
MARCEL PROUSTDear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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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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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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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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When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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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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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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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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