Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
MARCEL PROUSTFor 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.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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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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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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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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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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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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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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