We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
MARCEL PROUSTIt is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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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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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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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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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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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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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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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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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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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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