It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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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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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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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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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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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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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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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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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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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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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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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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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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