Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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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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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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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 must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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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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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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