The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTIt has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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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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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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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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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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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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