Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
MARCEL PROUSTWe love only what we do not wholly possess.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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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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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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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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Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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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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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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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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