A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
MARCEL PROUSTDesire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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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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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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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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