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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us (Marcel Proust Quotes)
The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been great changes (Marcel Proust Quotes)
Conversation, which is friendship’s mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute (Marcel Proust Quotes)
The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist (Marcel Proust Quotes)
We see things but we don’t see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another (Marcel Proust Quotes)
The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius (Marcel Proust Quotes)
We shall see later on that the diversity of the forms of death that circulate invisibly is the cause of the peculiar unexpectedness of obituary notices in the newspapers (Marcel Proust Quotes)
Habit is, of all the plants of human growth, the one that has the least need of nutritious soil in order to live, and is the first to appear on the most seemingly barren rock (Marcel Proust Quotes)
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think (Marcel Proust Quotes)
Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them (Marcel Proust Quotes)
It is only with the passions of others that we are ever really familiar, and what we come to discover about our own can only be learned from them (Marcel Proust Quotes)
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist (Marcel Proust Quotes)
The truth is that men can have several sorts of pleasure. The true pleasure is the one for which they abandon the other (Marcel Proust Quotes)
We may have revolved every possible idea in our minds, and yet the truth has never occurred to us, and it is from without, when we are least expecting it, that it gives us its cruel stab and wounds us forever (Marcel Proust Quotes)
I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction was generally enough to dispel (Marcel Proust Quotes)
Our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people derive from their own substance, a meaning widely different from that which we had put into the same words when we uttered them (Marcel Proust Quotes)
Like a kaleidoscope which is every now and then given a turn, society arranges successively in different orders elements which one would have supposed immutable, and composes a new pattern (Marcel Proust Quotes)
There comes in all our lives a time... when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence (Marcel Proust Quotes)
Existence is of little interest save on days when the dust of realities is mingled with magic sand (Marcel Proust Quotes)
Certain favourite roles are played by us so often before the public and rehearsed so carefully when we are alone that we find it easier to refer to their fictitious testimony than to that of a reality which we have almost entirely forgotten (Marcel Proust Quotes)
We ought at least, from prudence, never to speak of ourselves, because that is a subject on which we may be sure that other people’s views are never in accordance with our own (Marcel Proust Quotes)
If there is one thing more difficult than submitting oneself to a regime it is refraining from imposing it on other people (Marcel Proust Quotes)
We construct our lives for one person, and when at length it is ready to receive her that person does not come; presently she is dead to us, and we live on, prisoners within the walls which were intended only for her (Marcel Proust Quotes)
For theories and schools, like microbes and corpuscles, devour one another and by their strife ensure the continuity of life (Marcel Proust Quotes)
So long as I know what’s boiling in my pot I don’t bother my head about what’s in other people’s (Marcel Proust Quotes)
A man may have spent his life among the great ones of the earth, who to him have been merely boring relatives or tedious acquaintances because a familiarity engendered in the cradle had stripped them of all glamour in his eyes (Marcel Proust Quotes)
People who laugh so heartily at what they themselves have said, when it is not funny, dispense us accordingly, by taking upon themselves the responsibility for the mirth, from joining in it (Marcel Proust Quotes)
The real stars of society are tired of appearing there. He who is curious to gaze at them must often migrate to another hemisphere, where they are more or less alone (Marcel Proust Quotes)
Le bonheur est dans l’amour un e tat anormal. In love, happiness is abnormal (Marcel Proust Quotes)
Nous sommes tous oblige s, pour rendre la re alite supportable, d’entretenir en nous quelques petites folies. We must all indulge in a few follies if we are to make reality bearable (Marcel Proust Quotes)