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Marcel Proust

" Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees "

Art

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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. "

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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. "

Time , Day

" The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. "

Discovery

" The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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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. "

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" Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. "

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" We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full. "

Suffering

" We become moral when we are unhappy. "

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" We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. "

Desire

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