Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
MARCEL PROUSTOne must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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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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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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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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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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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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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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