All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
MARCEL PROUSTOne becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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The 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.
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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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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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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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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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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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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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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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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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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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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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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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