We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
MARCEL PROUSTSometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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 leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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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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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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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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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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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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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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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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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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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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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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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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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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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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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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