The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
MARCEL PROUSTThere 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.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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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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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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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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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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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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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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