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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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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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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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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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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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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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 fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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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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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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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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