Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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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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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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 creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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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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The 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.
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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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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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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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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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