Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
MARCEL PROUSTLet us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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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.
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Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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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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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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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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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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