Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
MARCEL PROUSTHappiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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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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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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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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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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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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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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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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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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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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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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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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Desire makes everything blossom.
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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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