There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
MARCEL PROUSTReading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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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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Desire makes everything blossom.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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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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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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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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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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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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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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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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