It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
MARCEL PROUSTThe artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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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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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, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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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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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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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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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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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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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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