It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
MARCEL PROUSTLove ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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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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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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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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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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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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We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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