The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
MARCEL PROUSTWe must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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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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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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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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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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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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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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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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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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