The only paradise is paradise lost.
MARCEL PROUSTA woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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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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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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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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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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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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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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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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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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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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