One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
MARCEL PROUSTWe don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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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.
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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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