The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to… — Marcel Proust
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.
In the original 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.
In Search of Lost Time · 1922
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Proust, Marcel. The Prisoner. Penguin Classics, 2019.
Original citation
Proust, Marcel. La Prisonnière [The Prisoner]. Paris: Gallimard, 1923.
