One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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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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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 courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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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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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.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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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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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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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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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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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.
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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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