Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
MARCEL PROUSTEverything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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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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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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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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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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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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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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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 a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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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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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other 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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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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