Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
MARCEL PROUSTThe 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.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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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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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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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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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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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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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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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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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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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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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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