We love only what we do not wholly possess.
MARCEL PROUSTHappiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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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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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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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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