Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
MARCEL PROUSTThe bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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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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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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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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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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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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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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