If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
MARCEL PROUSTJust as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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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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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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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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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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