If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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 woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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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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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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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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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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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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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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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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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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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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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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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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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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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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