One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
MARCEL PROUSTHappiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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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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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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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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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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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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