Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
MARCEL PROUSTIn love, happiness is an abnormal state.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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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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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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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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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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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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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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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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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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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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