There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
MARCEL PROUSTThere are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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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 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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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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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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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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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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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the 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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Truth is a point of view about things.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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