Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
MARCEL PROUSTPeople don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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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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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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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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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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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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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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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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