Desire makes everything blossom.
MARCEL PROUSTThe only paradise is paradise lost.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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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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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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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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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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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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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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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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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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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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