Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
MARCEL PROUSTTruth is a point of view about things.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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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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Desire makes everything blossom.
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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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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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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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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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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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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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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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