It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
MARCEL PROUSTAlways try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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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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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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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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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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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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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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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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