The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTThe time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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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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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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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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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 are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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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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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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