It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
MARCEL PROUST
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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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 courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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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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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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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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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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