People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
MARCEL PROUSTWhen I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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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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There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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