We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
MARCEL PROUSTAll our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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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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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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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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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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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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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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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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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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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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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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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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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.
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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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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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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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