There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
MARCEL PROUSTJust as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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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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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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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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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 only paradise is paradise lost.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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