It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
MARCEL PROUSTIf a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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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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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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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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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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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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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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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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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 must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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