Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
MARCEL PROUSTA 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.
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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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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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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There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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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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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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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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When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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