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.
MARCEL PROUSTInstead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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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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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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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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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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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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