A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
MARCEL PROUSTLove is space and time measured by the heart.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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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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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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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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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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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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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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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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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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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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