It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
MARCEL PROUSTLike many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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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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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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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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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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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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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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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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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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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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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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