The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
MARCEL PROUSTAlways try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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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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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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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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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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As 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.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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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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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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