When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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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One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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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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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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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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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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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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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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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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When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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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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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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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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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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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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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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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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