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Marcel Proust quotes: Ideas are substitutes for sorrows... Ideas are substitutes for sorrows...
Marcel Proust quotes: For a long time I would go to bed early.[Fr., Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure.] For a long time I would go to bed early.
[Fr., Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure.]
Marcel Proust quotes: If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure. If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.
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. 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: There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind. There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.
Marcel Proust quotes: The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes. The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes.
Marcel Proust quotes: But the presence of Odette continued to sow in Swann's heart alternate seeds of love and suspicion. But the presence of Odette continued to sow in Swann's heart alternate seeds of love and suspicion.
Marcel Proust quotes: One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone. One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.
Marcel Proust quotes: In the V-shaped opening of her crape bodice Mlle. Vinteuil felt the sting of her friend's sudden kiss; ... In the V-shaped opening of her crape bodice Mlle. Vinteuil felt the sting of her friend's sudden kiss; ...
Marcel Proust quotes: In love, happiness is an abnormal state. In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
Marcel Proust quotes: Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments. Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
Marcel Proust quotes: A new book was not one of a number of similar objects, but was like an individual man, unmatched, and with no cause of existence beyond himself. A new book was not one of a number of similar objects, but was like an individual man, unmatched, and with no cause of existence beyond himself.
Marcel Proust quotes: People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground. People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
Marcel Proust quotes: I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first appears. I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first appears.
Marcel Proust quotes: Whose inferiority proclaimed her own supremacy so loud ... Whose inferiority proclaimed her own supremacy so loud ...
Marcel Proust quotes: I live so resolutely apart from physical contingencies that my senses no longer trouble to inform me of them. I live so resolutely apart from physical contingencies that my senses no longer trouble to inform me of them.
Marcel Proust quotes: Sterile, splendid torture of understanding and loving ... Sterile, splendid torture of understanding and loving ...
Marcel Proust quotes: Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust quotes: The person with whom we are in love is to be recognised only by the intensity of the pain that we suffer. The person with whom we are in love is to be recognised only by the intensity of the pain that we suffer.
Marcel Proust quotes: Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much. Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.
Marcel Proust quotes: Only that which is absent can be imagined. Only that which is absent can be imagined.
Marcel Proust quotes: Only that issues from ourselves which we ourselves extract from the darkness within ourselves and which is unknown to others. Only that issues from ourselves which we ourselves extract from the darkness within ourselves and which is unknown to others.
Marcel Proust quotes: Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
Marcel Proust quotes: Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces. Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces.
Marcel Proust quotes: Happiness is salutary for the body but sorrow develops the powers of the spirit. Happiness is salutary for the body but sorrow develops the powers of the spirit.
Marcel Proust quotes: Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth ... Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth ...
Marcel Proust quotes: I have a horror of sunsets; they're so romantic, so operatic. I have a horror of sunsets; they're so romantic, so operatic.
Marcel Proust quotes: She lived her life, but I may have been the only one to dream it. She lived her life, but I may have been the only one to dream it.
Marcel Proust quotes: My dear," she had said to Mamma, "I could not bring myself to give the child anything that was not well written, My dear," she had said to Mamma, "I could not bring myself to give the child anything that was not well written,
Marcel Proust quotes: We remember the truth because it has a name, is rooted in the past, but a makeshift lie is quickly forgotten. We remember the truth because it has a name, is rooted in the past, but a makeshift lie is quickly forgotten.
Marcel Proust quotes: Combray, we used often to invite him to our house. Combray, we used often to invite him to our house.
Marcel Proust quotes: Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps, old snuff-boxes, or even to paintings and statues. Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps, old snuff-boxes, or even to paintings and statues.
Marcel Proust quotes: For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety. For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.
Marcel Proust quotes: Until custom had changed the colour of the curtains, made the clock keep quiet, brought Until custom had changed the colour of the curtains, made the clock keep quiet, brought
Marcel Proust quotes: We can only be faithful to what we remember, and we remember only what we have known. We can only be faithful to what we remember, and we remember only what we have known.
Marcel Proust quotes: Washed clean like a porcelain, with housewifely care ... Washed clean like a porcelain, with housewifely care ...
Marcel Proust quotes: The courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the 'other side' ... The courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the 'other side' ...
Marcel Proust quotes: He sat there silent, watching their love expire. He sat there silent, watching their love expire.
Marcel Proust quotes: For a long time I used to go to bed early. For a long time I used to go to bed early.
Marcel Proust quotes: For each of us sees clarity only in those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own. For each of us sees clarity only in those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.
Marcel Proust quotes: For instinct dictates our duty and the intellect supplies us with pretexts for evading it. For instinct dictates our duty and the intellect supplies us with pretexts for evading it.
Marcel Proust quotes: It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as there is a choice it can only be a bad one. It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as there is a choice it can only be a bad one.
Marcel Proust quotes: The young woman's smiling lips met his caresses halfway, and her eyes shone in their depths like pools warmed by the sun. The young woman's smiling lips met his caresses halfway, and her eyes shone in their depths like pools warmed by the sun.
Marcel Proust quotes: With intelligent people, three-quarters of the things they suffer from come from their intelligence. With intelligent people, three-quarters of the things they suffer from come from their intelligence.
Marcel Proust quotes: Fall in love with a dog's bum,And thou'll think it pretty as a plum. Fall in love with a dog's bum,
And thou'll think it pretty as a plum.
Marcel Proust quotes: The habit of thinking prevents us at times from experiencing reality, immunises us against it, makes it seem no more than any other thought. The habit of thinking prevents us at times from experiencing reality, immunises us against it, makes it seem no more than any other thought.
Marcel Proust quotes: breathed into this quite ordinary prose a kind of life, continuous and full of feeling. My breathed into this quite ordinary prose a kind of life, continuous and full of feeling. My
Marcel Proust quotes: Desiring a will was not enough. I would have needed precisely what I could not have without willpower: a will. Desiring a will was not enough. I would have needed precisely what I could not have without willpower: a will.
Marcel Proust quotes: That form of the instinct of self-preservation with which we guard everything that is best in ourselves ... That form of the instinct of self-preservation with which we guard everything that is best in ourselves ...
Marcel Proust quotes: Attachment to an object always brings death to the possessor. Attachment to an object always brings death to the possessor.
Marcel Proust quotes: since she would never have practised the cult of these things, she would take no impious delight in their profanation. since she would never have practised the cult of these things, she would take no impious delight in their profanation.
Marcel Proust quotes: That distant look characteristic of people who do not wish to be agreeable ... That distant look characteristic of people who do not wish to be agreeable ...
Marcel Proust quotes: Each of us is indeed alone. Each of us is indeed alone.
Marcel Proust quotes: Self-centredness thus enabling every human being to see the universe spread out in descending tiers beneath himself who is its lord, Self-centredness thus enabling every human being to see the universe spread out in descending tiers beneath himself who is its lord,
Marcel Proust quotes: As a man with imagination you can enjoy only in regret or in anticipation - that is, in the past or in the future. As a man with imagination you can enjoy only in regret or in anticipation - that is, in the past or in the future.
Marcel Proust quotes: We become moral when we are unhappy. We become moral when we are unhappy.
Marcel Proust quotes: The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity. The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
Marcel Proust quotes: One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself. One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
Marcel Proust quotes: The smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls, ready to remind us ... The smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls, ready to remind us ...
Marcel Proust quotes: Her eyes seemed to promise a spirit forever capsized in the diseased waters of regret. Her eyes seemed to promise a spirit forever capsized in the diseased waters of regret.
Marcel Proust quotes: True life life at last discovered and illuminated the only life therefore really lived that life is literature. True life life at last discovered and illuminated the only life therefore really lived that life is literature.
Marcel Proust quotes: We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill in the gap. We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill in the gap.
Marcel Proust quotes: Left with me were more difficult to extinguish than the memory of their original cause. Left with me were more difficult to extinguish than the memory of their original cause.
Marcel Proust quotes: The only paradise is paradise lost. The only paradise is paradise lost.
Marcel Proust quotes: Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far. Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
Marcel Proust quotes: It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed evil. It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed evil.
Marcel Proust quotes: Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language. Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.
Marcel Proust quotes: Let us be grateful to people whomake us happy; they are thecharming gardeners who make oursouls bloom. Let us be grateful
to people who
make us happy;
they are the
charming gardeners
who make our
souls bloom.
Marcel Proust quotes: Wars are fought for the benefit of oligarchs, triumphs bought with the blood of peons. Wars are fought for the benefit of oligarchs, triumphs bought with the blood of peons.
Marcel Proust quotes: What most enraptured me were the asparagus. What most enraptured me were the asparagus.
Marcel Proust quotes: We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body. We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
Marcel Proust quotes: All the great writers are like that: the beauty of their sentences, like the beauty of a woman one has not yet met, is unforeseeable ... All the great writers are like that: the beauty of their sentences, like the beauty of a woman one has not yet met, is unforeseeable ...
Marcel Proust quotes: One might almost say that works of literature are like artesian wells, the deeper the suffering, the higher they rise.) One might almost say that works of literature are like artesian wells, the deeper the suffering, the higher they rise.)
Marcel Proust quotes: Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet. Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet.
Marcel Proust quotes: In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things. In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
Marcel Proust quotes: Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think. Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
Marcel Proust quotes: The theatre of the world is stocked with fewer settings than actors, and with fewer actors than situations. The theatre of the world is stocked with fewer settings than actors, and with fewer actors than situations.
Marcel Proust quotes: Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now. Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
Marcel Proust quotes: A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped. A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.
Marcel Proust quotes: The thought of being made comfortable gives him strength to endure his pain. The thought of being made comfortable gives him strength to endure his pain.
Marcel Proust quotes: It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for. It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
Marcel Proust quotes: Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things. Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.
Marcel Proust quotes: Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true. Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
Marcel Proust quotes: ... with a quiet suggestion of infinity... ... with a quiet suggestion of infinity...
Marcel Proust quotes: We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves. We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.
Marcel Proust quotes: Do you think it possible for a woman really to be touched by a man's being in love with her, and never to be unfaithful to him? Do you think it possible for a woman really to be touched by a man's being in love with her, and never to be unfaithful to him?
Marcel Proust quotes: After luncheon the sun, conscious that it was Saturday, would blaze an hour longer in the zenith, ... After luncheon the sun, conscious that it was Saturday, would blaze an hour longer in the zenith, ...
Marcel Proust quotes: Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way
Marcel Proust quotes: They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there. They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there.
Marcel Proust quotes: Anything we have not had to decipher, to bring to light by our own effort, anything which was already clearly visible, is not our own. Anything we have not had to decipher, to bring to light by our own effort, anything which was already clearly visible, is not our own.
Marcel Proust quotes: Rejoicing in a peace which brings only an increase of anxiety, ... Rejoicing in a peace which brings only an increase of anxiety, ...
Marcel Proust quotes: Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning. Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
Marcel Proust quotes: Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms. Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
Marcel Proust quotes: No man is a complete mystery except to himself. No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
Marcel Proust quotes: To the pure all things are pure! To the pure all things are pure!
Marcel Proust quotes: She was not yet dead. But I was already alone. She was not yet dead. But I was already alone.
Marcel Proust quotes: The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the outcome. The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the outcome.
Marcel Proust quotes: We love only what we do not wholly possess. We love only what we do not wholly possess.
Marcel Proust quotes: Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company. Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.
Marcel Proust quotes: Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it. Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.

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