Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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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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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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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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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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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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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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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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