Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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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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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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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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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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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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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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