To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
MARCEL PROUSTLove is space and time measured by the heart.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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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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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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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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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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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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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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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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