It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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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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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 leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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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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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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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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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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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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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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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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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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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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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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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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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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