Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
MARCEL PROUSTPeople don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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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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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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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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