Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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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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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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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 bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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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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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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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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