It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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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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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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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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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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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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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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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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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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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