Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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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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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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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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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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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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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