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.
MARCEL PROUSTLet us be grateful to people who make us happy.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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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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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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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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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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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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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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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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