"Love is an incurable malady like those pathetic……" — Marcel Proust
"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."
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Marcel Proust
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303 Quotes by Marcel Proust
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We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we…
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There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.
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The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other…
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If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not…
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The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction…
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There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a…
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Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional,…
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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as…
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