The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having 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 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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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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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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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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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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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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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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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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