Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
MARCEL PROUSTOne becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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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 only paradise is paradise lost.
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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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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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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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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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