Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
MARCEL PROUSTWhen from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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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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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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