Tag: Marcel Proust
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The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
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Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.
Marcel Proust
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Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
Marcel Proust
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We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
Marcel Proust
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We become moral when we are unhappy.
Marcel Proust
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Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
Marcel Proust
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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.
Marcel Proust
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In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one’s life.
Marcel Proust
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
Marcel Proust
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Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
Marcel Proust