Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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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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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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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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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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