The only paradise is paradise lost.
MARCEL PROUSTSometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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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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We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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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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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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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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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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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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