Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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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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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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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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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new 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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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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