Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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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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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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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 highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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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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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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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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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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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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The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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