We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
MARCEL PROUSTA change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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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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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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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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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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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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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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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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Desire makes everything blossom.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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