Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
MARCEL PROUSTAn hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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As 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.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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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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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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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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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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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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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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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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Truth is a point of view about things.
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