Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTIn love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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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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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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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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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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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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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The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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