Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
MARCEL PROUSTIf a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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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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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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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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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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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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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 love only what we do not wholly possess.
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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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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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