The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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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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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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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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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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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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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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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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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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