Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
MARCEL PROUSTA picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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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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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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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.
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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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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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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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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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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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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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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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