The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTThe creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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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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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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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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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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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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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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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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