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

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  The only paradise is paradise lost.

• Marcel Proust:

  Love is a reciprocal torture.

• Marcel Proust:

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

• Marcel Proust:

  We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

• Marcel Proust:

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

• Marcel Proust:

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

• Marcel Proust:

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

• Marcus Tullius Cicero:

  Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

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  If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

• Marcus Tullius Cicero:

  If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.