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Any Quotes by Marcel Proust
- There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.
- For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times…
- Any mental activity is easy if it need not take reality into account.
- The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been great changes.
- Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
- The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our…
- Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place…
- Now the same mystery which often veils from our eyes the reason for a catastrophe envelops just as frequently, when love is in question, the…
- ...that melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and realise that we…
- 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…
- In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual delays, but which can at any moment become what it would…
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