A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
MARCEL PROUSTLike many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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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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Desire makes everything blossom.
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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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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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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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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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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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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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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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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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