Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
MARCEL PROUSTIt is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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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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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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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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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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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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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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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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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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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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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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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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