An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
MARCEL PROUSTThe creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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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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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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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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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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