Marcel Proust on believe
Marcel Proust79 quotes“We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.”
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Marcel ProustMarcel Proust One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Marcel ProustMarcel Proust 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.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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