Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
MARCEL PROUSTThe bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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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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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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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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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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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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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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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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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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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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