We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
MARCEL PROUSTOnly by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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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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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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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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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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