No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
MARCEL PROUSTThe fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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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 are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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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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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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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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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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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 fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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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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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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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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