It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
MARCEL PROUSTWhen I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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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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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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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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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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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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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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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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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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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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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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