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

Other quotes by Marcel Proust

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

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Sanity
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The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves. – Marcel Proust

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Mental Illness
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The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals… is the plagiarism of ourselves. – Marcel Proust

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He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. – William Penn

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. – From a headstone in Ireland

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I stopped predicting the future a long time ago. – Fred Durst

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