No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
MARCEL PROUSTHappiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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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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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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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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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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