There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
MARCEL PROUSTA woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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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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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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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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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 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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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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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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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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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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