Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTThe 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.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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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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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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