A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
MARCEL PROUST
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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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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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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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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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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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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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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