Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new 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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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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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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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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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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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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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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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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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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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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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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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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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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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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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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