Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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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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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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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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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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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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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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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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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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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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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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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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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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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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