We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
MARCEL PROUSTThere are optical illusions in time as well as space.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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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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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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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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Truth is a point of view about things.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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