In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
MARCEL PROUSTWhen from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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