If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
MARCEL PROUSTInstead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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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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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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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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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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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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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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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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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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