Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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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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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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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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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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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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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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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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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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