Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
MARCEL PROUSTTime passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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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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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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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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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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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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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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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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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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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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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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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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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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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other 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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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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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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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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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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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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