Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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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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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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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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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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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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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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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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