Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTA picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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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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Truth is a point of view about things.
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To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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