Quote by Marcel Proust
People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort

People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad. – Marcel Proust

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The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace. – Marcel Proust

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

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The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing. – Marcel Proust

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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. – Edvard Munch

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