It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
MARCEL PROUSTLove is space and time measured by the heart.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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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.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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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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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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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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Desire makes everything blossom.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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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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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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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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One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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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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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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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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