It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
MARCEL PROUSTAs long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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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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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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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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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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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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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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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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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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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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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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