Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
MARCEL PROUSTEverything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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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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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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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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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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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 courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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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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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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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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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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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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