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Marcel Proust Quotes

Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life Picture Quote #1

Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us Picture Quote #1

One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy Picture Quote #1

Memory nourishes the heart, and grief abates Picture Quote #1

My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing Picture Quote #1

Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes Picture Quote #1

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The most familiar precepts are not always the truest Picture Quote #1

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy Picture Quote #1

The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter Picture Quote #1

What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art Picture Quote #1

The heart does not lie Picture Quote #1

In love, happiness is an abnormal state Picture Quote #1

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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover Picture Quote #1

For a long time I used to go to bed early Picture Quote #1

The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity Picture Quote #1

For a long time I would go to bed early Picture Quote #1

But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are close at hand Picture Quote #1

But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality Picture Quote #1

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No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice Picture Quote #1

A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody’s opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Le veritable voyage de decouverte ne consiste pas a chercher de nouveaux paysages, mais a avoir de nouveaux yeux. (The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.) Picture Quote #1

No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book. Everything that seemed to fill them full for others we pushed aside, because it stood between us and the pleasures of the Gods Picture Quote #1

Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one’s life to women than to postage stamps or old snuff-boxes, even to pictures or statues. But the example of other collections should be a warning to us to diversify, to have not one woman only but several Picture Quote #1

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A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of worlds. He consults them instinctively upon awaking and in one second reads in them the point of the earth that he occupies, the time past until his arousal; but their ranks can be mingled or broken Picture Quote #1

I could no longer desire physically without feeling a need for her, without suffering from her absence Picture Quote #1

For a long time I would go to bed early. [Fr., Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure.] Picture Quote #1

... the courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the ‘other side’ Picture Quote #1

A ‘real’ person, profoundly as we may sympathise with him, is in a great measure perceptible only through our senses, that is to say, he remains opaque, offers a dead weight which our sensibilities have not the strength to lift Picture Quote #1

...a writer’s works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering has penetrated his soul Picture Quote #1

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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life (Marcel Proust Quotes) Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us (Marcel Proust Quotes) One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy (Marcel Proust Quotes) Memory nourishes the heart, and grief abates (Marcel Proust Quotes) My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing (Marcel Proust Quotes) Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes (Marcel Proust Quotes) The most familiar precepts are not always the truest (Marcel Proust Quotes) Let us be grateful to people who make us happy (Marcel Proust Quotes) The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter (Marcel Proust Quotes) What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art (Marcel Proust Quotes) The heart does not lie (Marcel Proust Quotes) In love, happiness is an abnormal state (Marcel Proust Quotes) Death is in truth an illness from which we recover (Marcel Proust Quotes) For a long time I used to go to bed early (Marcel Proust Quotes) The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity (Marcel Proust Quotes) For a long time I would go to bed early (Marcel Proust Quotes) But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are close at hand (Marcel Proust Quotes) But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality (Marcel Proust Quotes) No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice (Marcel Proust Quotes) A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody’s opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu (Marcel Proust Quotes) 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 Quotes) Le veritable voyage de decouverte ne consiste pas a chercher de nouveaux paysages, mais a avoir de nouveaux yeux. (The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.) (Marcel Proust Quotes) No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book. Everything that seemed to fill them full for others we pushed aside, because it stood between us and the pleasures of the Gods (Marcel Proust Quotes) Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one’s life to women than to postage stamps or old snuff-boxes, even to pictures or statues. But the example of other collections should be a warning to us to diversify, to have not one woman only but several (Marcel Proust Quotes) A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of worlds. He consults them instinctively upon awaking and in one second reads in them the point of the earth that he occupies, the time past until his arousal; but their ranks can be mingled or broken (Marcel Proust Quotes) I could no longer desire physically without feeling a need for her, without suffering from her absence (Marcel Proust Quotes) For a long time I would go to bed early. [Fr., Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure.] (Marcel Proust Quotes) ... the courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the ‘other side’... (Marcel Proust Quotes) A ‘real’ person, profoundly as we may sympathise with him, is in a great measure perceptible only through our senses, that is to say, he remains opaque, offers a dead weight which our sensibilities have not the strength to lift. (Marcel Proust Quotes) ...a writer’s works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering has penetrated his soul. (Marcel Proust Quotes)

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