The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTPeople don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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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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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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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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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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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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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 real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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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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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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