When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
MARCEL PROUSTIt comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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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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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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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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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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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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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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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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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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