Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.


Marcel Proust

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Remembrance of things past.
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Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
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Perhaps the remembrance of these things will prove a source of future pleasure.
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There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.
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There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.
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The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust.
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You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN
Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past.
UNKNOWN
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sig...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
They would use that as a remembrance.
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It was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence wa...
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Of joys departed Not to return, how painful the remembrance.
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Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance.
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Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance
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The desire of our soul is to they name, and to the remembrance of thee. [Isaiah]
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I sigh ...
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When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.
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Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness
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It was a grand day of remembrance.
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The test of an enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind
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Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain.
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...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
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First came a delightful thrill, as of something very pleasant; then a horrible remembrance.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
In the face of bravery, there is the human spirit of honour and remembrance.
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Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.
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Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear
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Meditating, meditating in remembrance on the Divine Guru, one's fears are erased and dispelled.
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The sweet remembrance of the just shall flourish when he sleeps in dust.
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Since we broke upI'm using lipstick againI suck my tonguein remembrance of you.
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Let your ideas be your grade of intelligence and not your remembrance of a textbook.
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Remembrance, Appreciation and Hope.
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Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit.
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Praising what is lost
Makes the remembrance dear.
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ANONYMOUS
Let's not burden our remembrance with a heaviness that's gone.
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Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.
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Celebrating Independence Day, in remembrance of our History & its Truths.
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Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume
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When we are young we squander time as though it were unlimited; When we grow older, then like beggar...
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Before you take your debtor to court,first open his book of remembrance to see how much he has patro...
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In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred,It is a paryer for the future, ...
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As the generation of Holocaust survivors and liberators dwindles, the torch of remembrance, of beari...
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Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain.
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All the twenty-four hours, you should be in the remembrance of God.
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Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.
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The desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee. Isaiah 26:8
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Let us not burthen our remembrance with
A heaviness that's gone.
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Some Time Music Arose With Someone's Remembrance.
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Meditate in remembrance on the One Lord; do not be in love with duality.
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We think this is a nice resource for the community and a historical remembrance of these folks.
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Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.
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It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory
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When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.
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But you took them for a mockery until they made you forget My remembrance and you used to laugh at t...
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Come and meet with me, O brides of the Lord, let s meditate in remembrance on the Creator Lord.
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Meditating, meditating, meditating in remembrance on Him, singing His Glorious Praises, the noose of...
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His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
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People carry their loved ones with them. They are forever present.
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I loved her [Gilberte]; I was sorry not to have had the time and the inspiration to insult her, to h...
MARCEL PROUST
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream...
MARCEL PROUST
Every person is destroyed when we cease to see him; after which his next appearance is a new creatio...
MARCEL PROUST
I feel that there is much to be said for the Celtic belief that the souls of those whom we have lost...
MARCEL PROUST
I did not wait to hear the end of my father's story, for I had been with him myself after mass when ...
MARCEL PROUST
In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground...
MARCEL PROUST
I put down my cup and examine my own mind. It is for it to discover the truth. But how? What an abys...
MARCEL PROUST
Now my uncle knew many of them [actresses] personally, and also ladies of another class, not clearly...
MARCEL PROUST
She observed the dumb-show by which her neighbour was expressing her passion for music, but she refr...
MARCEL PROUST
We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves.
MARCEL PROUST
Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be ...
MARCEL PROUST
The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, th...
MARCEL PROUST
Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.
MARCEL PROUST
As soon as one is unhappy one becomes moral
MARCEL PROUST
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The ...
MARCEL PROUST
In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays, b...
MARCEL PROUST
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruel...
MARCEL PROUST
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes
MARCEL PROUST
In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feel...
MARCEL PROUST
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused
MARCEL PROUST
It was fortunate that I had not already yielded to the temptation to break with Albertine; the tediu...
MARCEL PROUST
It was not only Odette's indifference, however, that he must take pains to circumvent; it was also, ...
MARCEL PROUST
Perhaps she would not have thought of wickedness as a state so rare, so abnormal, so exotic, one whi...
MARCEL PROUST
[T]his jealousy gave him, if anything, an agreeable chill, as, to the sad Parisian who is leaving Ve...
MARCEL PROUST
My mother repressed a shudder of apprehension, for, being more rapid in perception than my father, s...
MARCEL PROUST
These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decid...
MARCEL PROUST
The thirst for something other than what we have…to bring something new, even if it is worse, some...
MARCEL PROUST
It was in the defects that they [servants] invariably acquired that I learned of my own natural, inv...
MARCEL PROUST
Es mejor soñar una vida que vivirla, aunque vivirla siga siendo soñarla, pero menos misteriosament...
MARCEL PROUST
Para estar al borde del mar no hay más que cerrar los ojos.
MARCEL PROUST