Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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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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 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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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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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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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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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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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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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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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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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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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