It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
MARCEL PROUSTA change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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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For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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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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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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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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