When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
MARCEL PROUSTA woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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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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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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