Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
MARCEL PROUSTWe are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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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 highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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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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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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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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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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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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