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.
MARCEL PROUSTTime passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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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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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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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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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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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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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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