We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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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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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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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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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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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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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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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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