We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
MARCEL PROUSTTime passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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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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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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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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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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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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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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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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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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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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