Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
MARCEL PROUSTInstead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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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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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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