Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
MARCEL PROUSTAlways try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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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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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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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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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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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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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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