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“Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.”

— Marcel Proust

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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

— Marcel Proust

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

— Marcel Proust

Wisdom

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

— Marcel Proust

Wisdom

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It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

— Marcel Proust

Education

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

— Marcel Proust

Wisdom

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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.

— Marcel Proust

Life

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