It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
MARCEL PROUSTThere are optical illusions in time as well as space.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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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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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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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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