In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
MARCEL PROUSTTruth is a point of view about things.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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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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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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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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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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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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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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