A catherdral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as
high as we had hoped.
Marcel Proust
high as we had hoped.
Marcel Proust
Related:
- Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person
sees.
Marcel Proust,... - SAN FRANCISCO:
Marcel Proust editing an issue of Penthouse... - We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a
journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel... - San Francisco, n.:
Marcel Proust editing an issue of Penthouse... - Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.
Marcel... - 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... - Les vrais paradis sont les paradis qu'on a perdus.
[The true paradises are the lost paradises.]
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Marcel...
From the same category:
- We live, not as we wish to,
but as we can.... - What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little; it is dearness only that
gives everything its value.
Thomas... - Virtue is not left to stand alone.
He who practices it will have neighbors.... - We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things,
but we know, when we will, how to speak true things... - Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
Benjamin...
