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It might be a Proustian slogan: n'allez pas trop vite. And an advantage of not going by too fast is that the world has a chance of becoming more interesting in the process.

How Proust Can Change Your Life
There is a danger of developing a blanket distaste for modern life which could have its attractions but lack the all-important images to help us identify them.

How Proust Can Change Your Life
There are mysterious beings, always the same, who keep on sentinel at every crossroads in our lives.

Villa Triste
Whatever more we do, we will never know the repose, the gentle stillness of things. We will always walk on quicksand.

Les Boulevards de Ceinture
We live in a time where we are not surprised by anything any longer.

Les Boulevards de Ceinture
The events that happen in our life do not have interest by themselves, but rather on how they impact on our imagination and our dreams.

Interview (2014)
In order to lead a meaningful life, you need to cherish others, pay attention to human values and try to cultivate inner peace.
Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.
It is really a miracle how you have managed to be so miserable, so thirsty, when it is raining all over. You have really done the impossible! Everywhere it is light and you live in darkness. Death is nowhere and you are constantly dying; life is a benediction and you are in hell.

The Empty Boat: Encounters with Nothingness
Don't try to understand life. Live it! Don't try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will know - and all that knowing will come out of your experiencing. The more you know, the more you know that much remains to be known.

Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously
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