When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
MARCEL PROUSTFor 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.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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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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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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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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When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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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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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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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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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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