Truth is a point of view about things.
MARCEL PROUSTSometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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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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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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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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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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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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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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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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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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