The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
MARCEL PROUSTThere are optical illusions in time as well as space.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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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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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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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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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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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 love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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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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