Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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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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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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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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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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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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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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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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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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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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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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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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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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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