Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
Marcel Proust
Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
Marcel Proust
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Marcel Proust
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Marcel Proust
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
Marcel Proust
People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be…
Marcel Proust
The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism as to treatment, of pessimism as to the outcome.
Marcel Proust
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
Marcel Proust
What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
Marcel Proust
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
Marcel Proust
If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.
Marcel Proust
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms, one would not part.
Marcel Proust
Any mental activity is easy if it need not take reality into account.
Marcel Proust
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
Marcel Proust
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
Marcel Proust
As soon as one is unhappy one becomes moral.
Marcel Proust
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to…
Marcel Proust
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
Marcel Proust
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
Marcel Proust
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe:…
Marcel Proust
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Marcel Proust
The only paradise is paradise lost.
Marcel Proust
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
Marcel Proust
The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it, and habit fills up what remains.
Marcel Proust
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
Marcel Proust
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
Marcel Proust
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
Marcel Proust
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
Marcel Proust
It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, that we make our irrevocable decisions.
Marcel Proust
We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
Marcel Proust
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps…
Marcel Proust
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
Marcel Proust
Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
Marcel Proust
In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be…
Marcel Proust
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
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
Marcel Proust
The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile…
Marcel Proust
The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been 'great changes.'
Marcel Proust
Love is space and time measured by the heart.