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.
MARCEL PROUSTWhen I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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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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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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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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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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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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One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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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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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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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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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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