The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTLove ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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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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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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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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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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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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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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