My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
MARCEL PROUSTWhen I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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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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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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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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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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