Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
MARCEL PROUSTDear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Do 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.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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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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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 healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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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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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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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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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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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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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
MARCEL PROUST