Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
MARCEL PROUSTRemembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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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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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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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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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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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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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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When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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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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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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