A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
MARCEL PROUSTThe creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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 courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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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 only paradise is paradise lost.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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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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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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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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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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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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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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