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Marcel Proust Quotes: We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
         

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.


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



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Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.



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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.



When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.

When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.



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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.



One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.

One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.



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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.



Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.

Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.



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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.





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