The only paradise is paradise lost.
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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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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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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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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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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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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