You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
MARCEL PROUSTWe live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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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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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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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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Truth is a point of view about things.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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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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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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