Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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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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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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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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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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