One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
MARCEL PROUSTLet us be grateful to people who make us happy.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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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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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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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 is space and time measured by the heart.
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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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For 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.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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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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