It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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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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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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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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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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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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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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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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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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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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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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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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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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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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