Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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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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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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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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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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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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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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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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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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