In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
MARCEL PROUSTWe live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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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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Truth is a point of view about things.
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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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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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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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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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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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Desire makes everything blossom.
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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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