Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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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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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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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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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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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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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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The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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There 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.
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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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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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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 are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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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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