The only paradise is paradise lost.
MARCEL PROUSTIt is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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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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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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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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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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