Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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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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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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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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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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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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