The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
MARCEL PROUSTThe real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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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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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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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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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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