If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
MARCEL PROUSTThere 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.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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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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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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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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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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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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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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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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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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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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