The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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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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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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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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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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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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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