Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTTime, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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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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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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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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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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The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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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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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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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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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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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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