For women who do not love us, as for the "disappeared", knowing that we no longer have any hope does not prevent… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Le veritable voyage de decouverte ne consiste pas a chercher de nouveaux paysages, mais a avoir de nouveaux yeux. (The real voyage… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Mystery is not about traveling to new places but about looking with new eyes.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, on days when the weather was beyond redemption, mere residence in the house, situated in the midst of a steady and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“As a rule it is with our being reduced to a minimum that we live; most of our faculties lie dormant because… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“...the seaside life and the life of travel made me realise that the theatre of the world is stocked with fewer settings… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The true voyage of discovery is not a journey to a new place; it is learning to see with new eyes. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Sunrise is a necessary concomitant of long railway journeys, like hard-boiled eggs, illustrated papers, packs of cards, rivers upon which boats strain… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The only true voyage of discovery . . . would be not to visit strange lands, but to possess other eyes, to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We exist only by virtue of what we possess, we possess only what is really present to us, and many of our… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands with the same pair of eyes, but to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands, but to see the same land through a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Just think of how many projects, travels, love affairs, studies it - our life - hides from us, made invisible by our… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“machinery' of life at Versailles; and was able, too, to persuade herself that her silence, a shade of good humour or of arrogance on… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For her [Françoise], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both merit and charm. She made so little distinction between… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Then from those profound slumbers we awake in a dawn, not knowing who we are, being nobody, newly born, ready for anything, the brain… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Art extracted from the most familiar reality does indeed exist and its domain is perhaps the largest of any.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“When you heard anyone in the middle of a talk which was being deliberately kept off the Affair announce furtively some piece of political… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We betroth ourselves by proxy, and then feel obliged to marry the intermediary.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But the old lady on the contrary, far from justifying her daughter’s fears, felt every time someone of her own age “disappeared” that she… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image