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.
MARCEL PROUSTThe time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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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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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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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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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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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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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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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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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
MARCEL PROUST