People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
MARCEL PROUSTLove is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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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 only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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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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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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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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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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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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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 only paradise is paradise lost.
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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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