Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
MARCEL PROUSTThe 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.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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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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Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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For 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.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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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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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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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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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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