Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
MARCEL PROUSTThe bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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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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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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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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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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