Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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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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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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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 only paradise is paradise lost.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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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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Desire makes everything blossom.
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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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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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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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