Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
MARCEL PROUSTJust as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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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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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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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 creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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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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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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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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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 must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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