Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
MARCEL PROUSTIn love, happiness is an abnormal state.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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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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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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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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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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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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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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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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