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Marcel Proust Quotes
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The stellar universe is not so difficult to understand as the real actions of other people, especially of the people with whom we are in love (Marcel Proust Quotes)
We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our sorrow, that our love perhaps is our sorrow (Marcel Proust Quotes)
As soon as he ceased to be mad he became merely stupid. There are maladies we must not seek to cure because they alone protect us from others that are more serious (Marcel Proust Quotes)
We believe we can change things according to our wishes because that’s the only happy solution we can see. We don’t think of what usually happens and what is also a happy solution; things don’t change, but by and by our wishes change (Marcel Proust Quotes)
And so when studying faces, we do indeed measure them, but as painters, not as surveyors (Marcel Proust Quotes)
When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were and the souls of the dead from whom we have sprung come to lavish on us their riches and their spells (Marcel Proust Quotes)
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates (Marcel Proust Quotes)
The smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls, ready to remind us (Marcel Proust Quotes)
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day (Marcel Proust Quotes)
Perfume is that last and best reserve of the past, the one which when all out tears have run dry, can make us cry again! (Marcel Proust Quotes)
There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite (Marcel Proust Quotes)
A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and vital than a man of genius who interests us (Marcel Proust Quotes)
The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection (Marcel Proust Quotes)
When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest (Marcel Proust Quotes)
A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is (Marcel Proust Quotes)
After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one’s family traits become (Marcel Proust Quotes)
According to a charming law of nature which is evident even in the most sophisticated societies, we live in complete ignorance of whatever we love (Marcel Proust Quotes)
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice (Marcel Proust Quotes)
It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since, as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad (Marcel Proust Quotes)
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body (Marcel Proust Quotes)
People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad (Marcel Proust Quotes)
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance (Marcel Proust Quotes)
Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works of art. The world will never realize how much it owes to them and what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it (Marcel Proust Quotes)
Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances are that we may be relying on a scientific truth the error of which will be recognized in a few years time (Marcel Proust Quotes)
I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant (Marcel Proust Quotes)
Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey (Marcel Proust Quotes)
It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one’s bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one’s head under the cover, giving one’s self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors. It is our sweet, our profound, our impenetrable friendship (Marcel Proust Quotes)
Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make a display of none in public and about whom no one can affirm they have a single one. There is something supple and secret about them. Besides, their perversity gives spice to their most innocent occupations, such as taking a walk in the garden at night (Marcel Proust Quotes)
I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room I had at last filled with myself to the point of paying no more attention to the room than to that self. The anesthetizing influence of habit having ceased, I would begin to have thoughts, and feelings, and they are such sad things (Marcel Proust Quotes)
Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer’s work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader’s recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book’s truth (Marcel Proust Quotes)