Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
MARCEL PROUSTHappiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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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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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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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 are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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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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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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