We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
MARCEL PROUSTIn love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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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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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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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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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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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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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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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