Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTIf a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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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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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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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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Truth is a point of view about things.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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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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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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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