When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
MARCEL PROUSTTo 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.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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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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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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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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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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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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Desire makes everything blossom.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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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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