The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTTo 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.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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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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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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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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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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