There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
MARCEL PROUSTWhen I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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 is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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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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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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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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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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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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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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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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