We love only what we do not wholly possess.
MARCEL PROUSTThe time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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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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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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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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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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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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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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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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