One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
MARCEL PROUSTDo 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.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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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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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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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 bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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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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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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