Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
MARCEL PROUSTThe bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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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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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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