When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
MARCEL PROUSTLove ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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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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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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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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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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