Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
MARCEL PROUSTNo man is a complete mystery except to himself.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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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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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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