Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
MARCEL PROUSTThe courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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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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Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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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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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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