We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
MARCEL PROUSTNo man is a complete mystery except to himself.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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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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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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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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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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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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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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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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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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