We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
MARCEL PROUSTLet us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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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 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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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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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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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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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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