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Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time.
It might be a Proustian slogan: n'allez pas trop vite. And an advantage of not going by too fast is that the world has a chance of becoming more interesting in the process.
How Proust Can Change Your Life
There is a danger of developing a blanket distaste for modern life which could have its attractions but lack the all-important images to help us identify them.
How Proust Can Change Your Life
There are mysterious beings, always the same, who keep on sentinel at every crossroads in our lives.
Villa Triste
Whatever more we do, we will never know the repose, the gentle stillness of things. We will always walk on quicksand.
Les Boulevards de Ceinture
The events that happen in our life do not have interest by themselves, but rather on how they impact on our imagination and our dreams.
Interview (2014)
In order to lead a meaningful life, you need to cherish others, pay attention to human values and try to cultivate inner peace.
Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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