When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
MARCEL PROUSTIt is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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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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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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