One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
MARCEL PROUSTOne becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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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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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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