Truth is a point of view about things.
MARCEL PROUSTThere are optical illusions in time as well as space.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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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 do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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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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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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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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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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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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