Tag: Marcel Proust
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A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
Marcel Proust
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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.
Marcel Proust
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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.
Marcel Proust
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The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.
Marcel Proust
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No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.
Marcel Proust
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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.
Marcel Proust
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Marcel Proust
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
Marcel Proust
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Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
Marcel Proust
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
Marcel Proust