Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
MARCEL PROUSTAlways try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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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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To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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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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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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