One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
MARCEL PROUSTAlways try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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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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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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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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There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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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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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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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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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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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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