We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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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.
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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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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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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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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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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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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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