We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
MARCEL PROUSTLove is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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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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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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