Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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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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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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We 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.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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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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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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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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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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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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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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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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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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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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