Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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 are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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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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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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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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