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.
MARCEL PROUSTWe 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.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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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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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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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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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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