Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
MARCEL PROUSTLet us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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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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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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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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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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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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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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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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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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