Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTWe 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.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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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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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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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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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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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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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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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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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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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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When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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