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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

Thank You, Thankful, Appreciation

Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.

Powerful, Heart, Intelligent

Under each station of the real, another glimmers.

Real, Reality, Stations

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

Habit, Proportion, Absurdity

The heart does not lie.

Lying, Heart, Doe

We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.

Different, Body, Kingdoms

Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.1104, Wordsworth Editions

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.

Wisdom, Learning, Journey

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

Communication, Reading, Miracle

Marcel Proust (1971). “On Reading”

You can't learn the truth about a man's intentions by asking him.

Men, Asking, Intention

We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.

Reality, Nurse, Littles

Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.917, Delphi Classics

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

Change, Time, People

An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.

Sound, Climate, Scent

Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.289, Modern Library

In love, happiness is an abnormal state.

Abnormal, States

"In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove". Book by Marcel Proust, 1919.

What barrier is so insurmountable as silence?

Silence, Barriers, Insurmountable

Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way”, p.151, Modern Library

Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.

Honesty, Stress, Thinking

Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.2105, Delphi Classics

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Missing You, True Love, Best Love

"In Search of Lost Time, Volume V: The Captive". Book by Marcel Proust, 1923.

Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not the same as our own and of which, without art, the landscapes would remain as unknown to us as those that may exist on the moon.

Art, Persons, Knows

"In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained".

But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years - and it opens.

Doors, Illumination, Years

Marcel Proust (2015). “Remembrance of Things Past Time Regained”, p.137, Marcel Proust

Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.

Art, World, Form

Marcel Proust (1932). “Cities of the Plain”

One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

Unhappy, Moral

Marcel Proust (2015). “In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time”, p.225, Yale University Press

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Love, Inspiring, Dream

Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.799, Jester House Publishing

We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.

Art, Philosophy, Thinking

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

Love, Reality, Literature

Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.

Spring, Intelligent, People

Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.549, Jester House Publishing

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Grieving, Suffering, Healed

"Remembrance of Things Past". Volume 3,

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