People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
MARCEL PROUSTFor 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.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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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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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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