All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
MARCEL PROUSTOnly by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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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 real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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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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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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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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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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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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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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