Desire makes everything blossom.
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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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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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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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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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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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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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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There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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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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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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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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