The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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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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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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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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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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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.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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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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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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