Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
MARCEL PROUSTWe love only what we do not wholly possess.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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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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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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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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