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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.

Marcel Proust

Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
MARCEL PROUST

Life Sky Yourself
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.
MARCEL PROUST

Life Moments Wait
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
MARCEL PROUST

Art Ourselves See World
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
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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Progress Reality Road
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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Break Distance Food Past Taste
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
MARCEL PROUST

Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
MARCEL PROUST

Listen Music Sad
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.
MARCEL PROUST

Chance Satisfaction Success
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
MARCEL PROUST

Happiness Love
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.
MARCEL PROUST

Doctor Health Ideas Oneself People Powerful
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
MARCEL PROUST

Discover Ourselves Wisdom
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
MARCEL PROUST

Intellectual Intelligent People Spring

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