Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
MARCEL PROUSTMy destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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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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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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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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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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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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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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