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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination. - Marcel Proust Quotes

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

French Author Imagination

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: the idea that one is ill. - Marcel Proust Quotes

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: the idea that one is ill.

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians - Marcel Proust Quotes

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians

Love Quote of the Day

His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in other words, everyone) believe that he was immune from snobbishness - Marcel Proust Quotes

His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in other words, everyone) believe that he was immune from snobbishness

Everything great that we know has come from neurotics. never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor above all what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it. - Marcel Proust Quotes

Everything great that we know has come from neurotics. never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor above all what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.

Drugs

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages. - Marcel Proust Quotes

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

Choice French Author

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves. - Marcel Proust Quotes

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

We become moral when we are unhappy. - Marcel Proust Quotes

We become moral when we are unhappy.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind - Marcel Proust Quotes

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

Body

I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant. - Marcel Proust Quotes

I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant.

Creativity Life

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

A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped

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 never have seen in himself. - Marcel Proust Quotes

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 never have seen in himself.

Books And Reading French Author

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way - Marcel Proust Quotes

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way

Love is space and time measured by the heart. - Marcel Proust Quotes

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

French Author Heart

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 Quotes

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

Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make a display of none in public and about whom no one can affirm they have a single one. There is something supple and secret about them. Besides, their perversity gives spice to their most innocent occupations, such as taking a walk in the garden at night. - Marcel Proust Quotes

Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make a display of none in public and about whom no one can affirm they have a single one. There is something supple and secret about them. Besides, their perversity gives spice to their most innocent occupations, such as taking a walk in the garden at night.

Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things - Marcel Proust Quotes

Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things

It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms, one would not part - Marcel Proust Quotes

It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms, one would not part

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature. - Marcel Proust Quotes

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Art Arts And Artists

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. - Marcel Proust Quotes

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

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 Quotes

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

French Author Journey

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. - Marcel Proust Quotes

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

Desire French Author

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually ourdesire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it was intolerablebecomes unimportant. We have not managed to surmount the obstacle, as wewere absolutely determined to do, but life has taken us round it, led us past it, andthen if we turn round to gaze at the remote past, we can barely catch sight of it, soimperceptible has it become. - Marcel Proust Quotes

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually ourdesire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it was intolerablebecomes unimportant. We have not managed to surmount the obstacle, as wewere absolutely determined to do, but life has taken us round it, led us past it, andthen if we turn round to gaze at the remote past, we can barely catch sight of it, soimperceptible has it become.

The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others. - Marcel Proust Quotes

The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. - Marcel Proust Quotes

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

French Author Happiness

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 enough to make him fall in love with her. - Marcel Proust Quotes

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 enough to make him fall in love with her.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. - Marcel Proust Quotes

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

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey - Marcel Proust Quotes

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey

The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which have become permanent - Marcel Proust Quotes

The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which have become permanent

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees - Marcel Proust Quotes

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees

Art

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last. - Marcel Proust Quotes

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

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 Quotes

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress. - Marcel Proust Quotes

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

Ask

I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the current meaning of the word, invent it, but, since it exists already in each one of us, interprets it. The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter. - Marcel Proust Quotes

I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the current meaning of the word, invent it, but, since it exists already in each one of us, interprets it. The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.

Books And Reading Writers And Writing

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full. - Marcel Proust Quotes

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

French Author Suffering

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond. - Marcel Proust Quotes

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

French Author Lies And Lying

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. - Marcel Proust Quotes

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

Childhood French Author

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them - Marcel Proust Quotes

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. - Marcel Proust Quotes

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Discovery French Author

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes - Marcel Proust Quotes

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

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things. - Marcel Proust Quotes

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

French Author Love

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love. - Marcel Proust Quotes

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two - Marcel Proust Quotes

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure. - Marcel Proust Quotes

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

Elegance French Author

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit. - Marcel Proust Quotes

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

French Author Humanity

Love is a reciprocal torture. - Marcel Proust Quotes

Love is a reciprocal torture.

French Author Love

In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted, atrocious - Marcel Proust Quotes

In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted, atrocious

Joy

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind. - Marcel Proust Quotes

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

French Author Mind

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying - Marcel Proust Quotes

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying

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

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments

Habit

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