There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
MARCEL PROUSTIf a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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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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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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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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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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