We love only what we do not wholly possess.
MARCEL PROUSTJust as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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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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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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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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