We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
MARCEL PROUSTEven though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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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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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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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 healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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