We love only what we do not wholly possess.
MARCEL PROUSTLove ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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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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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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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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There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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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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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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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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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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