There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
MARCEL PROUSTLove is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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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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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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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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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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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 real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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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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