There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
MARCEL PROUSTTime, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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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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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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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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Truth is a point of view about things.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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