When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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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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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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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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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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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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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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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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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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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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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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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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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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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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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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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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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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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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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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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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