Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
MARCEL PROUSTThe creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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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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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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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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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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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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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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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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