Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
MARCEL PROUSTIf we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender 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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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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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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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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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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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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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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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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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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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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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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