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“Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade. ”
― Marcel Proust

“Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces.”
― Marcel Proust

“Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them.”
― Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past: Volume II - The Guermantes Way & Cities of the Plain

“If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.”
― Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

“Love is space and time measured by the heart.”
― Marcel Proust

“It is our imagination that is responsible for love, not the other person.”
― Marcel Proust

“Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. ”
― Marcel Proust

“To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion”
― Marcel Proust

“Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.”
― Marcel Proust