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.
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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The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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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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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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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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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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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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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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