Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
MARCEL PROUSTThere 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.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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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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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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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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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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