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.
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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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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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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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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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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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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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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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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