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.
MARCEL PROUSTWe think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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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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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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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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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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