We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
MARCEL PROUSTWhen I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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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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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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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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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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