When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
MARCEL PROUSTFor 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.
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 fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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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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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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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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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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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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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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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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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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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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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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