People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
MARCEL PROUSTWhen from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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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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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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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 photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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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 from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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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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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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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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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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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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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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