Tag: Marcel Proust
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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
Marcel Proust
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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.
Marcel Proust
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What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
Marcel Proust
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
Marcel Proust
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
Marcel Proust
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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.
Marcel Proust
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Love is a reciprocal torture.
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.
Marcel Proust
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Every reader finds himself. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
Marcel Proust