When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
MARCEL PROUSTTruth is a point of view about things.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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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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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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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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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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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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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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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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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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