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.
MARCEL PROUSTThe 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.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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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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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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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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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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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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Desire makes everything blossom.
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