The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
MARCEL PROUSTWe are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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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 ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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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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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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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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