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 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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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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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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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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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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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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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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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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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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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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