All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
MARCEL PROUSTInstead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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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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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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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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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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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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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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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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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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