When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
MARCEL PROUSTReality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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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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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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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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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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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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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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