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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
This rubicund youth, with his blunt features, appeared for all the world to have a tomato instead of a head.
— Marcel Proust
Beckett . . . Joyce . . . Proust . . . Shakespeare
— Harold Bloom
Each one of us is not a single person, but contains many persons who have not all the same moral value
— Marcel Proust
We remember an atmosphere because girls were smiling in it.
— Marcel Proust
Existence is of little interest save on days when the dust of realities is mingled with magic sand.
— Marcel Proust
Sometimes I wish I could go back through time to meet Proust, just so I could give him my asthma inhaler. The poor guy.
— Rebecca Makkai
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
— 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
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
— 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
Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet.
— Marcel Proust
One might almost say that works of literature are like artesian wells, the deeper the suffering, the higher they rise.)
— Marcel Proust
Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
— Eugenio Montale
Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
— Marcel Proust
Homosexuals would be the best husbands in the world if they did not put on an act of loving other women.
— Marcel Proust
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
The best vaccine against anger is to watch others in its throes.
— Marcel Proust
That form of the instinct of self-preservation with which we guard everything that is best in ourselves ...
— Marcel Proust
Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
— Samuel Beckett
There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one's mind.
— 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
It was impossible for me to thank my father; what he called my sentimentality would have exasperated him.
— 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
"Why did you not forget your heart also? I should never have let you have that back." ...
— 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
Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience.
— William Gaddis
I must choose to cease from suffering or to cease from loving.
— 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
Friendship is in the end no more than: " ... a lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone."
— Marcel Proust
What do you most value in your friends?Their continued existence. — Christopher Hitchens
Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.
— Alexander Woollcott
