When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
MARCEL PROUSTLove is space and time measured by the heart.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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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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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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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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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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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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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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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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