Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTAlways try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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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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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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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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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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