Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTIf we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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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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Desire makes everything blossom.
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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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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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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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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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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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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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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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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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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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