Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
MARCEL PROUSTAs long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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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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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Desire makes everything 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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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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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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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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