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 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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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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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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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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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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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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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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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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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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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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