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“The two chief causes of error in our relations with another person are, having ourselves a good heart, or else being in love with the other person.”

— Marcel Proust

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Marcel Proust Quote: “The two chief causes of error in our relations with another person are, having ourselves a good heart, or else being in love with the other person.”

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“The two chief causes of error in our relations with another person are, having ourselves a good heart, or else being in love with the other person.”

— Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust Quote: “The two chief causes of error in our relations with another person are, having ourselves a good heart, or else being in love with the other person.”

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2. “My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.”

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3. “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”

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4. “We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”

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5. “Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.”

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6. “Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”

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7. “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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8. “We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.”

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9. “Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.”

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10. “The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes.”

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11. “Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.”

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12. “Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”

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13. “Every reader finds himself. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.”

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14. “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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15. “Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.”

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

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17. “Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”

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18. “We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.”

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19. “When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were and the souls of the dead from whom we have sprung come to lavish on us their riches and their spells.”

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20. “When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.”

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21. “There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.”

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22. “Memory nourishes the heart, and grief abates.”

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23. “The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.”

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24. “Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.”

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

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26. “No man is a complete mystery except to himself.”

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27. “Love is a reciprocal torture.”

— Marcel Proust

28. “The heart does not lie.”

— Marcel Proust

29. “Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.”

— Marcel Proust

30. “What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is not ours. From ourselves comes only that which we drag forth from the obscurity which lies within us, that which to others is unknown.”

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31. “It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.”

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32. “A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.”

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33. “We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.”

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34. “It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions.”

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35. “Discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

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36. “It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.”

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37. “It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.”

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38. “A language which we do not know is a fortress sealed.”

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39. “The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”

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40. “The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been great changes.”

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41. “Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue.”

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42. “Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, and by the immobility of our conceptions of them.”

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

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44. “Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be.”

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45. “We may have revolved every possible idea in our minds, and yet the truth has never occurred to us, and it is from without, when we are least expecting it, that it gives us its cruel stab and wounds us forever.”

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46. “Laissons les jolies femmes aux hommes sans imagination. Leave the pretty women for the men without imagination.”

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47. “Human altruism which is not egoism, is sterile.”

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48. “We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.”

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49. “Griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some of their power to injure our heart.”

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50. “At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts.”

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