Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
MARCEL PROUSTIt is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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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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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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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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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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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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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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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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Desire makes everything blossom.
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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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One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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