Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
MARCEL PROUSTAn hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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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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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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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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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 creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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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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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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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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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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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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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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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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