The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having 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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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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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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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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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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When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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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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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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