We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
MARCEL PROUSTWhen 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.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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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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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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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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Truth is a point of view about things.
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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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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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Desire makes everything blossom.
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