When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
MARCEL PROUSTTime passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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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 only paradise is paradise lost.
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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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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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