All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
MARCEL PROUSTWhen you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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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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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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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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