Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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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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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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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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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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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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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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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
MARCEL PROUST