In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
MARCEL PROUST
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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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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Truth is a point of view about things.
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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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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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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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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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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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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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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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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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