Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
MARCEL PROUSTThe fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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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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There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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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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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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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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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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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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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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