Love is space and time measured by the heart.
MARCEL PROUSTTime, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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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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For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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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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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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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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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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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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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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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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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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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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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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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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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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