The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTJust as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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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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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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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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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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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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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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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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