Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
MARCEL PROUSTWhen I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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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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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
MARCEL PROUST