We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
MARCEL PROUSTIn love, happiness is an abnormal state.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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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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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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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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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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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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