You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
MARCEL PROUSTLove ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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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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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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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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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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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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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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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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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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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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