Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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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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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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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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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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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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Desire makes everything blossom.
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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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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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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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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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