Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
MARCEL PROUSTDear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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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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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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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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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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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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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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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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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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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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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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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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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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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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Desire makes everything blossom.
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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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