An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
MARCEL PROUSTIn a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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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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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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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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