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What Marcel Proust Really Said about Seeing with New Eyes – Clearing Customs

What Marcel Proust Really Said about Seeing with New Eyes – Clearing Customs

Section titled “What Marcel Proust Really Said about Seeing with New Eyes – Clearing Customs”

  • The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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    • Note: Common paraphrase of Proust quote
  • The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds*, that each of them is***;
    • Note: Origial Proust quote
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