We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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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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For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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