No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
MARCEL PROUSTDeath is in truth an illness from which we recover
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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 woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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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 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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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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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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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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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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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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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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Truth is a point of view about things.
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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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