Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
MARCEL PROUSTIt is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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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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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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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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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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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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