Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
MARCEL PROUSTThe bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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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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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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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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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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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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