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Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust
The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy -- they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
Your soul...is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.
Any mental activity is easy if it need not take reality into account.
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the current meaning of the word, invent it, but, since it exists already in each one of us, interprets it. The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.
Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.
The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism as to treatment, of pessimism as to the outcome.
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the current meaning of the word, invent it, but, since it exists already in each one of us, interprets it. The duty and th
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.