Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTIn a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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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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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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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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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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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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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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