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.
MARCEL PROUSTThe bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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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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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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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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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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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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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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