Love is space and time measured by the heart.
MARCEL PROUSTThere are optical illusions in time as well as space.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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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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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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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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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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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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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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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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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Desire makes everything blossom.
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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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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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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 ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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