Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
MARCEL PROUSTWe live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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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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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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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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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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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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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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