It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
MARCEL PROUSTIt has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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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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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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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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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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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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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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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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