All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
MARCEL PROUSTWe love only what we do not wholly possess.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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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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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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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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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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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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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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Truth is a point of view about things.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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