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The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes, in seeing the universe with the eyes of another, of hundreds of others, in seeing the hundreds of universes that each of them sees.
By Marcel Proust
There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.
By Marcel Proust
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
By Marcel Proust
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.
By Marcel Proust
What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us
By Marcel Proust
What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
By Marcel Proust
We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us or spare us.
By Marcel Proust
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us
By Marcel Proust
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true
By Marcel Proust
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory
By Marcel Proust
There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible.
By Marcel Proust
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book
By Marcel Proust
The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.
By Marcel Proust
The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it, and habit fills up what remains
By Marcel Proust
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes
By Marcel Proust
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
By Marcel Proust
The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
By Marcel Proust
The opinions we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.
By Marcel Proust
The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train
By Marcel Proust
The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing.
By Marcel Proust