It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
MARCEL PROUSTThe bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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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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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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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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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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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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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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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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