Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
MARCEL PROUSTIn love, happiness is an abnormal state.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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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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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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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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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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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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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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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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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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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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We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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