Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
MARCEL PROUSTLove is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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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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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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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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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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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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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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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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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