No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
MARCEL PROUSTLet us be grateful to people who make us happy.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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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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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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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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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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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 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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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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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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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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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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