Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

- Marcel Proust

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

- Marcel Proust

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

- Marcel Proust

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

- Marcel Proust

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

- Marcel Proust

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

- Marcel Proust

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

- Marcel Proust

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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If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

- Marcel Proust

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

- Marcel Proust

It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

- Marcel Proust

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

- Marcel Proust

No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.

- Marcel Proust