Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
MARCEL PROUSTPeople wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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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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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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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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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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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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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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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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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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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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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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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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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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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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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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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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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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The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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