We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
MARCEL PROUSTWe are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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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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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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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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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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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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