Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
MARCEL PROUSTThe only paradise is paradise lost.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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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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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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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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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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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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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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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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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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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.
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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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