Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTThe only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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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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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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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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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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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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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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