Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
MARCEL PROUSTHappiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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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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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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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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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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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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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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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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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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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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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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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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