There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
MARCEL PROUSTYou can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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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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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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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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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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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 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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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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