We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
MARCEL PROUSTSometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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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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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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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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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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