Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
MARCEL PROUSTThanks 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.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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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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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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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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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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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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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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