Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTNine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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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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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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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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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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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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The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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