| It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part. |
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- Marcel Proust |
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| The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. |
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- Marcel Proust |
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| In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life. |
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- Marcel Proust |
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| All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality. |
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- Marcel Proust |
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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. Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. |
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- Marcel Proust |
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| We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance. |
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- Marcel Proust |
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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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- Marcel Proust |
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| It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused. |
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- Marcel Proust |
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| Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages. |
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- Marcel Proust |
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| Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces. |
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- Marcel Proust |
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| It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. |
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- Marcel Proust |
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| Let us leave the beautiful women to men with no imagination. |
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- Marcel Proust |
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| Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. |
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- Marcel Proust |
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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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- Marcel Proust |
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| Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments. |
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- Marcel Proust |
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