The only paradise is paradise lost.
MARCEL PROUSTA change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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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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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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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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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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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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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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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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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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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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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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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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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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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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