We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
MARCEL PROUSTMy destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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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 fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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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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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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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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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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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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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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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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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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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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