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Ideas are substitutes for sorrows...
— Marcel Proust
But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.
— Marcel Proust
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
— Marcel Proust
People are not always very tolerant of the tears which they themselves have provoked.
— Marcel Proust
Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.
— Marcel Proust
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
— Marcel Proust
This rubicund youth, with his blunt features, appeared for all the world to have a tomato instead of a head.
— Marcel Proust
... my body ... faithful guardian of a past which my mind should never have forgotten, brought back before my eyes ....
— Marcel Proust
His work kept on living, like the watches on the wrists of dead soldiers. [Said of Marcel Proust]
— Jean Cocteau
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
— Marcel Proust
True life life at last discovered and illuminated the only life therefore really lived that life is literature.
— Marcel Proust
Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.
— Marcel Proust
How often is not the prospect of future happiness thus sacrificed to one's impatient insistence upon an immediate gratification.
— Marcel Proust
The hope of being relieved gives him the courage to suffer.
— Marcel Proust
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
— Marcel Proust
Unfortunately my parents had recourse to principles entirely different from those which I suggested they should adopt
— Marcel Proust
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
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
— Marcel Proust
An hour is not merely an hour; it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
— Marcel Proust
I could no longer desire physically without feeling a need for her, without suffering from her absence.
— Marcel Proust
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
— Marcel Proust
She was capable of causing me pain, but no longer any joy. Pain alone kept my wearisome attachment alive.
— Marcel Proust
What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
— Marcel Proust
His strength was restored and, with it, all his desires to live; he went out, began living again, and died a second time for himself.
— Marcel Proust
always wrapped in the mystery of the Merovingian age,
— Marcel Proust
A language which we do not know is a fortress sealed.
— Marcel Proust
Gardeners produce flowers that are delicious dreams, and others too that are like nightmares.
— Marcel Proust
The smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls, ready to remind us ...
— Marcel Proust
Truth is a point of view about things.
— Marcel Proust
the sweetness to be found in generosity
— Marcel Proust
How paradoxical it is to search reality for the pictures that are stored in one's memory.
— Marcel Proust
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
— Marcel Proust
I felt myself still reliving a past which was no longer anything more than the history of another person;
— Marcel Proust
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
— Marcel Proust
There are optical errors in time as there are in space.
— Marcel Proust
The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing.
— Marcel Proust
Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.
— Marcel Proust
Desire makes everything blossom
— Marcel Proust
That translucent alabaster of our memories.
— Marcel Proust
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
— Marcel Proust
And if she had appeared, would I have dared to speak to her?
— Marcel Proust
Her eyes seemed to promise a spirit forever capsized in the diseased waters of regret.
— Marcel Proust
Presently, one after another, like shyly hopping sparrows, her friends arrived, black against the snow.
— Marcel Proust
I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me.
— Marcel Proust
Friendship is in the end no more than: " ... a lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone."
— Marcel Proust
One might almost say that works of literature are like artesian wells, the deeper the suffering, the higher they rise.)
— Marcel Proust
Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet.
— Marcel Proust
The oddities of charming people exasperate us, but there are few if any charming people who are not, at the same time, odd.
— Marcel Proust
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
— Marcel Proust
It is the tragedy of other people that they are merely showcases for the very perishable collections of one's own mind.
— Marcel Proust
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
— Marcel Proust
Existence is of little interest save on days when the dust of realities is mingled with magic sand.
— Marcel Proust
Each one of us is not a single person, but contains many persons who have not all the same moral value
— Marcel Proust
I must choose to cease from suffering or to cease from loving.
— Marcel Proust
We remember an atmosphere because girls were smiling in it.
— Marcel Proust
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
I longed for nothing more than to behold a stormy sea, less as a mighty spectacle than as a momentary revelation of the true life of nature;
— Marcel Proust
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
"Why did you not forget your heart also? I should never have let you have that back." ...
— Marcel Proust
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Now my uncle knew many of them [actresses] personally, and also ladies of another class, not clearly distinguished from actresses in my mind.
— Marcel Proust
It was impossible for me to thank my father; what he called my sentimentality would have exasperated him.
— Marcel Proust
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
There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one's mind.
— Marcel Proust
The only paradise is paradise lost.
— Marcel Proust
The kiss, the bodily surrender which would seem natural and but moderately attractive ...
— Marcel Proust
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
— Marcel Proust
The breath of the enchanted wind mingles the fresh scent of the lilacs with the fragrance of the past.
— Marcel Proust
When a man is asleep, he has in a circle round him the chain of the hours, the sequence of the years, the order of the heavenly host.
— Marcel Proust
The stellar universe is not so difficult of comprehension as the real actions of other people.
— Marcel Proust
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
— Marcel Proust
Left with me were more difficult to extinguish than the memory of their original cause.
— Marcel Proust
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
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
— Marcel Proust
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
Let us be gratefulto people who
make us happy;
they are the
charming gardeners
who make our
souls bloom. — Marcel Proust
Wars are fought for the benefit of oligarchs, triumphs bought with the blood of peons.
— Marcel Proust
What most enraptured me were the asparagus.
— Marcel Proust
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
I was not unhappy, except one day at a time.
— Marcel Proust