Love is space and time measured by the heart.
MARCEL PROUSTRemembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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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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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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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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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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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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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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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 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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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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