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

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

Marcel Proust

Inspirational, Life, Positive

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it was intolerable becomes unimportant. We have not managed to surmount the obstacle, as we were absolutely determined to do, but life has taken us round it, led us past it, and then if we turn round to gaze at the remote past, we can barely catch sight of it, so imperceptible has it become.

Marcel Proust

Life, Taken, Adversity

"In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: The Sweet Cheat Gone". Book by Marcel Proust, 1925.

The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.

Marcel Proust

Life, Travel, Eye

Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.657, Wordsworth Editions

We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill in the gap.

Marcel Proust

Life, Thinking, Names

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.

Marcel Proust

Life, Time, Moving

Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.466, Jester House Publishing

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, Wise, Wisdom

Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.775, Wordsworth Editions