The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTLike many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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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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Only 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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For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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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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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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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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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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