A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
MARCEL PROUSTPeople wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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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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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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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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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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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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One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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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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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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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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