Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
MARCEL PROUSTReading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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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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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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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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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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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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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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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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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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