A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
MARCEL PROUSTWhen from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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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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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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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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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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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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