The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTNo man is a complete mystery except to himself.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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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.
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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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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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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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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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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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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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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