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"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground." -
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Marcel Proust
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Top 5 quotes from Marcel Proust
"The only paradise is paradise lost."
"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time."
"It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused."
"The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace."
"I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the current meaning of the word, invent it, but, since it exists already in each one of us, interprets it. The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter."
Top 5 quotes from Risk
"When in doubt, do it."
"We should not criticise those who trip by taking a more difficult than usual step."
"Risk is what separates the good part of life from the tedium."
"“Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare."
"The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise."
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