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.
MARCEL PROUSTIf we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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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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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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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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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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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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