All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
MARCEL PROUSTThe only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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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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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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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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