Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
MARCEL PROUSTMy destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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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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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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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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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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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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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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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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