The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTThe bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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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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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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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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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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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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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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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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