Marcel Proust on eyes
Marcel Proust79 quotes“The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.”
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Marcel ProustMarcel Proust 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.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust The only paradise is paradise lost.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust 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.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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