The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
MARCEL PROUSTIn a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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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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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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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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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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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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