A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
MARCEL PROUSTTime passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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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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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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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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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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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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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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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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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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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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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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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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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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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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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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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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