One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
MARCEL PROUSTLet us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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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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Desire makes everything blossom.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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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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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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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 live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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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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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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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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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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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.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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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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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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