In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
MARCEL PROUSTOnly by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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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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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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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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