Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.

Marcel Proust
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue. ✨ Marcel Proust (2006). Remembrance of Things Past, p.129, Wordsworth Editions
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