The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTIt comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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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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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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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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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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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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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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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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