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Love Quotes by Marcel Proust
- There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.
- Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness are of more…
- My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
- A certain similarity exists, although the type evolves, between all the women we love, a similarity that is due to the fixity of our own…
- A person does not...stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans, his intentions with regard to ourself exposed on…
- Every kiss provokes another. Oh, in those earliest days of love how naturally the kisses spring to life! So closely, in their profusion, do they…
- Love is an incurable malady like those pathetic states in which rheumatism affords the sufferer a brief respite only to be replaced by epileptiform headaches.
- The stellar universe is not so difficult to understand as the real actions of other people, especially of the people with whom we are in…
- Desire makes everything blossom
- We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our sorrow, that our…
- That translucent alabaster of our memories.
- A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if the houses have…
- In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
- Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
- According to a charming law of nature which is evident even in the most sophisticated societies, we live in complete ignorance of whatever we love.
- We are ordinarily so indifferent to people that when we have invested one of them with the possibility of giving us joy, or suffering, it…
- It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since, as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad.
- We must love men more than things, and I admire and weep more for the soldiers than for the churches which were only the recording…
- The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been great changes.
- We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another.
- It is the wicked deception of love that it begins by making us dwell not upon a woman in the outside world but upon a…
- If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
- Love is space and time measured by the heart.
- Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
- Love is a reciprocal torture.
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