Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTLet us be grateful to people who make us happy.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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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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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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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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The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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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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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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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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