We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
MARCEL PROUSTDesire makes everything blossom.
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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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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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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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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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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