Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
MARCEL PROUSTIn love, happiness is an abnormal state.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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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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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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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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When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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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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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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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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