Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTAll our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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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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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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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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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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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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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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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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For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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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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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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