A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
MARCEL PROUSTThe real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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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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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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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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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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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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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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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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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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