A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
MARCEL PROUSTThanks 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.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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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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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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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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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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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 real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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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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