Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
MARCEL PROUSTWe love only what we do not wholly possess.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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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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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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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 only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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