It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
MARCEL PROUSTInstead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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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 only paradise is paradise lost.
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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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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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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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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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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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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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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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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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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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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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