Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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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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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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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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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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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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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