It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
MARCEL PROUSTWhen I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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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 picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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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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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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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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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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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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