Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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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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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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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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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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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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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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