Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
MARCEL PROUSTNo man is a complete mystery except to himself.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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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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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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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 only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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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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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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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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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
MARCEL PROUST