Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
MARCEL PROUSTLet us be grateful to people who make us happy.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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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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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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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 you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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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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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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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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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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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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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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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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Truth is a point of view about things.
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