We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
MARCEL PROUSTDear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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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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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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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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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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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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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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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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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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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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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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 creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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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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