One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
MARCEL PROUSTOne must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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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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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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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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Desire makes everything blossom.
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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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Do 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.
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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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