Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
MARCEL PROUSTEven though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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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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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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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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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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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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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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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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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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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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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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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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