Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
MARCEL PROUSTIn love, happiness is an abnormal state.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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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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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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