Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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 perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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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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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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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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Truth is a point of view about things.
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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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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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