The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
MARCEL PROUSTDo not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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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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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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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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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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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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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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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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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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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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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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