When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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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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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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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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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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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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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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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 must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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