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Marcel Proust - From the Art category:
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees. (Marcel Proust)
Marcel Proust - From the Belief category:
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things. (Marcel Proust)
Marcel Proust - From the Colour category:
If I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much a garden of flowers as of colours and tones... because it was planted so that only the flowers with matching colours will bloom at the same time. (Marcel Proust)
Marcel Proust - From the Desire category:
There is nothing like desire for preventing the thing one says from bearing any resemblance to what one has in mind. (Marcel Proust)
Marcel Proust - From the Discovery category:
The great quality of true art is that it rediscovers, grasps and reveals to us that reality far from where we live, from which we get farther and farther away as the conventional knowledge we substitute for it becomes thicker and more impermeable. (Marcel Proust)
Marcel Proust - From the Discovery category:
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. (Marcel Proust)
Marcel Proust - From the Dreams category:
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. (Marcel Proust)
Marcel Proust - From the Emotion category:
I have a horror of sunsets; they're so romantic, so operatic. (Marcel Proust)
Marcel Proust - From the Expression category:
Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute. (Marcel Proust)
Marcel Proust - From the Form category:
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms. (Marcel Proust)
Marcel Proust - From the Gratitude category:
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. (Marcel Proust)
Marcel Proust - From the Greatness category:
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. (Marcel Proust)
Marcel Proust - From the Ideas category:
A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it. (Marcel Proust)
Marcel Proust - From the Illusion category:
There are optical illusions in time as well as space. (Marcel Proust)
Marcel Proust - From the Morality category:
-Remembrance of Things Past: Within a Budding Grove
As soon as one is unhappy, one becomes moral. (Marcel Proust)
Marcel Proust - From the Originality category:
Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists. (Marcel Proust)
Marcel Proust - From the Power category:
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. (Marcel Proust)
Marcel Proust - From the Risk category:
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground. (Marcel Proust)
Marcel Proust - From the Sacrifice category:
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. (Marcel Proust)
Marcel Proust - From the Seeing category:
We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another. (Marcel Proust)
Marcel Proust - From the Theory category:
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. (Marcel Proust)
Marcel Proust - From the Thinking category:
We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill the gap. (Marcel Proust)
Marcel Proust - From the Universe category:
Only through art can we get outside ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours... (Marcel Proust)
Marcel Proust - From the Unknowns category:
Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art to undo this work of theirs, making us travel back in the direction from which we have come to the depths where what has really existed lies unknown within us. (Marcel Proust)
Marcel Proust - From the Wisdom category:
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us or spare us. (Marcel Proust)
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