We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
MARCEL PROUSTNo man is a complete mystery except to himself.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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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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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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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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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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