It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
MARCEL PROUSTLet us be grateful to people who make us happy.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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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 love only what we do not wholly possess.
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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 I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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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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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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The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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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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