The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
MARCEL PROUSTOnly 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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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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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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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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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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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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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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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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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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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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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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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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