Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Quotes by Marcel Proust
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The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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.
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.
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.
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
The only paradise is paradise lost.
Love is a reciprocal torture.
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
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