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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust Love is space and time measured by the heart.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust 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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