Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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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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When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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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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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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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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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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