Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
MARCEL PROUSTThe time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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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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Desire makes everything blossom.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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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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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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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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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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