Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
MARCEL PROUSTReading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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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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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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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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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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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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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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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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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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