Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
MARCEL PROUSTThe real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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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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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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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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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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