One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
MARCEL PROUSTThanks 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.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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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.
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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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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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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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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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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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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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