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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Marcel ProustMarcel Proust A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust 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.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust 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.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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