The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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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For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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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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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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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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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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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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