A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

Quote by Marcel Proust

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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.

Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals

Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals

In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom...

In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom...

In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays,...

In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays,...

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth...

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth...

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be...

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be...

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says...

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says...

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

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....

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually....

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new...

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new...

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we...

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we...

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and...

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and...

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.