A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
MARCEL PROUSTTruth is a point of view about things.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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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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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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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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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 bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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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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Desire makes everything blossom.
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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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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