Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
MARCEL PROUSTLet us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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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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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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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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