Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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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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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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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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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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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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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One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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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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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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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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