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Marcel Proust Quotes

French - Author | July 10, 1871 - November 18, 1922

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Time Dream Dangerous More Dreaming

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

Art Person Know Through Only Emerge

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

People Will Others Real Pleasure

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

Succeed Desire Changes Changing Our

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

Truth Go Beyond Never Afraid Must

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

Mind Self Person Unite Exist Only

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

Nature Habit Knowing First Us Nor

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

People Affection Dead Dying Because

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Humanity Important Pleasure Pursuit

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.

Life Time World Never Things Us

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.

Life Live Time Practice Earth Aware

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

Mind Decisions Final Going Last Our

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