Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
MARCEL PROUSTLove is space and time measured by the heart.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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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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To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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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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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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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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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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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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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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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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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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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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