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Biography - Marcel Proust:

French novelist, critic and essayist.
Born: 1871 - Died: 1922
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

Love is space and time measured by the heart.



Love is space and time measured by the heart.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
L'amour, c'est l'espace et le temps rendus sensibles au cœur.

German
Liebe ist Raum und Zeit, dem Herzen fühlbar gemacht.




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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

If there is a pure love, exempt from the mixture of our other passions, it is that which is concealed at the bottom of the heart and of which even ourselves are ignorant.




Quotes for: love


Quotes

Quotes about love:


Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





Love, love, all the rest is nothing.





Intelligence has value only in the service of love.





There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.





Love, and do what you will.











Quotes for: heart


Quotes

Quotes about heart:


Hope stole into my heart against my will.





It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.





The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing.





Great thoughts come from the heart.





With most people the heart grows old with the body.





What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.











Quotes for: time


Quotes

Quotes about time:


In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.





Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.





Time is a great master; it regulates things well.





It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.





Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.





What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.











Quotes for: space


Quotes

Quotes about space:


All our dignity consists, then, in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time which we cannot fill.
Let us endeavour then to think well; this is the principle of morality.






There are moments in life when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence immeasurably increased.





The separation of history from geography rests upon the separation of time from space.





The infinitely smallest part of space is always a space, something endowed with continuity, not at all a mere point or the boundary between specified places in space.





Time, matter, space — all, it may be, are no more than a point.





The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.











Quotes

Marcel Proust also said...


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





The time at our disposal each day is elastic the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.





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





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





Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.





Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.












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