Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
MARCEL PROUSTWe love only what we do not wholly possess.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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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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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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