There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
MARCEL PROUSTAn hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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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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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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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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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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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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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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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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