Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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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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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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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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The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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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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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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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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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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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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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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