A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
MARCEL PROUSTTruth is a point of view about things.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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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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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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