If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
MARCEL PROUSTRemembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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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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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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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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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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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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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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