A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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But this does not exempt the sane from a feeling of alarm when a madman who has composed a sublime poem, after explaining to them in the most logical fashion that he has been shut up by mistake through his wife's machinations, imploring them to intercede for him with the governor of the asylum, complaining of the promiscuous company that is forced upon him, concludes as follows 'You see that man in the courtyard, who I'm obliged to put up with he thinks he's Jesus Christ. That should give you an idea of the sort of lunatics I've been shut up with he can't be Jesus Christ, because I'm Jesus Christ' A moment earlier, you were on the point of going to assure the psychiatrist that a mistake had been made. On hearing these words, even if you bear in mind the admirable poem at which this same man is working every day, you shrink from him....Marcel Proust
It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, that we make our irrevocable decisions
Marcel Proust
There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.
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The only true voyage of discovery is not to go to new places, but to have other eyes.
Marcel Proust
That translucent alabaster of our memories.
Marcel Proust
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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