One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
MARCEL PROUSTThe only paradise is paradise lost.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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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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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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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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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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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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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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