People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
MARCEL PROUSTThe time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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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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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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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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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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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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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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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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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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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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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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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 creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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