We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
MARCEL PROUSTLet us be grateful to people who make us happy.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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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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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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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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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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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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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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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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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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