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.
MARCEL PROUSTTo 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.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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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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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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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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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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