It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
MARCEL PROUSTAlways try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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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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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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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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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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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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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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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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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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