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.
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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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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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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One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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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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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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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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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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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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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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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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