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Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
Marcel Proust
Art
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
People
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
Marcel Proust
Imagination
Men
Women
Pretty
Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
Marcel Proust
Humanity
Lies
Pleasure
Pursuit
Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.
Marcel Proust
Love
Thought
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
Marcel Proust
Intellectuals
Saying
Love is a reciprocal torture.
Marcel Proust
Love
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
Marcel Proust
Love
Time
Heart
Space
A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.
Marcel Proust
Literary
Opinion
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
Marcel Proust
Change
Weather
World
Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.
Marcel Proust
Life
Philosophy
People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
Marcel Proust
People
Pleasure
Will
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
Marcel Proust
Time
People
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
Marcel Proust
Mind
Self
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
Marcel Proust
Woman