Marcel Proust Quotes

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• 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

  Long, Waiting, Miracle

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  The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

  Marcel Proust

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

  Marcel Proust

  Way, Destination, New Ways

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  Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

  Marcel Proust

  Friendship, Happiness, Happy

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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• Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

  Marcel Proust

  Memories, Past, Remembrance

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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

  Wise, Wisdom, Im Sorry

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• 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

  Succeed, Chance, Catching

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  One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.

  Marcel Proust

  Thinking, Opportunity, Interesting

  Marcel Proust, Philip Kolb (1992). “Marcel Proust, Selected Letters: 1910-1917”, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

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• In love, happiness is an abnormal state.

  Marcel Proust

  Abnormal, States

  "In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove". Book by Marcel Proust, 1919.

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• Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.

  Marcel Proust

  Wise, Wisdom, Eye

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• Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.

  Marcel Proust

  Sky, Trying, Patches

  Marcel Proust (2016). “Swann's Way”, p.88, Marcel Proust

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• The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

  Marcel Proust

  Memories, Lying, Men

  Marcel Proust (2010). “In Search Of Lost Time, Vol 5: The Captive & The Fugitive”, p.515, Random House

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• The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.

  Marcel Proust

  World, Creation, Creation Of The World

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.4455, Delphi Classics

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• Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

  Marcel Proust

  Desire, Possession, Fades

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• A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

  Marcel Proust

  Inspirational, Strength, Powerful

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.518, Wordsworth Editions

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• Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them.

  Marcel Proust

  Love Is, People, Frustrated

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• Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

  Marcel Proust

  Happiness, Sympathy, Depression

  A la recherche du temps perdu: Le Temps retrouve Vol. 2, Ch. 3

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• The only paradise is paradise lost.

  Marcel Proust

  Paradise, Lost

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• Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

  Marcel Proust

  Mean, Reality, Love Is

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.4369, Delphi Classics

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• There are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an infinite time to climb, and downward-sloping days which one can descend at full tilt, singing as one goes.

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  Infinite Time, Singing, Tilt

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Swann's Way”, p.424, Vintage

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• If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

  Marcel Proust

  Reality, Two, Fantasy

  Marcel Proust (2002). “In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower”, Viking Press

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• We love only what we do not wholly possess.

  Marcel Proust

  French Love

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.534, Wordsworth Editions

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• One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

  Marcel Proust

  Unhappy, Moral

  Marcel Proust (2015). “In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time”, p.225, Yale University Press

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• 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

  Powerful, Heart, Intelligent

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• 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

  Giving Up, Sacrifice, Reality

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.268, Modern Library

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