The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTRemembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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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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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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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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