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Quote of Marcel Proust - The real voyage of discovery consists...


Biography - Marcel Proust:

French novelist, critic and essayist.
Born: 1871 - Died: 1922
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

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



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French
Le seul véritable voyage, le seul bain de Jouvence, ce ne serait pas d'aller vers de nouveaux paysages, mais d'avoir d'autres yeux, de voir l'univers avec les yeux d'un autre, de cent autres, de voir les cent univers que chacun d'eux voit, que chacun d'eux est.

German
Die wahre Entdeckungsreise besteht nicht darin, neue Landschaften zu suchen, sondern mit neuen Augen zu sehen.




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They change the sky, not their soul, who run across the sea.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.




Quotes for: universe


Quotes

Quotes about the Universe:


The universe confounds me! I cannot imagine that such a ‘clock’ can exist without there being a Clockmaker.





Philosophy is written in this grand book, which stands continually open before our eyes (I say the Universe), but can not be understood without first learning to comprehend the language and know the characters as it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible to humanly understand a word; without these one is wandering in a dark labyrinth.





You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.





Everything mystical is personal — accordingly it is an elementary variation of the universe.





All I did was to look at what the universe showed me.





Nothing is indifferent, nothing is powerless in the universe; an atom can dissolve everything, an atom can save everything











Quotes for: others


Quotes

Quotes about others:


To be happy, we must consider the happiness of another.





Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.





Article IV – Liberty consists of doing anything which does not harm others: thus, the exercise of the natural rights of each man has only those borders which assure other members of the society the enjoyment of these same rights. These borders can be determined only by the law.





If we had no pride we should not complain of that of others.





Let the other side be heard as well.
Seneca / 





Whoever is happy will make others happy too.











Quotes

Quotes for: travel


A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Laozi / 





Who wishes to travel far spares his steed.





Life is what we make of it. Travels are travellers. What we see is not what we see but what we are.





Nothing develops intelligence like travel.





The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.





We are all travellers. And this journey is life.







Quotes

Marcel Proust also said...


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.





Love is space and time measured by the heart.





Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.





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





Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.





Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.












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