The only paradise is paradise lost.
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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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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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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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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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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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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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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