The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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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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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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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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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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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For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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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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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 are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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