Marcel Proust Quotes - Page 2

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• The heart does not lie.

  Marcel Proust

  Lying, Heart, Doe

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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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• Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, World, Form

  Marcel Proust (1932). “Cities of the Plain”

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• Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.

  Marcel Proust

  Memories, Wander, Our Memories

  1927 A' la recherche du temps perdu,'LeTemps retrouve '.

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• You can't learn the truth about a man's intentions by asking him.

  Marcel Proust

  Men, Asking, Intention

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

  Marcel Proust

  Motivational, Success, Lying

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• But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years - and it opens.

  Marcel Proust

  Doors, Illumination, Years

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Remembrance of Things Past Time Regained”, p.137, Marcel Proust

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• Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

  Marcel Proust

  Communication, Reading, Miracle

  Marcel Proust (1971). “On Reading”

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

  Marcel Proust

  Simple, Stupidity, Intellectual

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.1170, Delphi Classics

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• The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.

  Marcel Proust

  Passion, Inspire, Each Day

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

  Marcel Proust

  Entrepreneur, Decision, Luck

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• An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.

  Marcel Proust

  Sound, Climate, Scent

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.289, Modern Library

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• It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

  Marcel Proust

  Inspirational, Anorexia, Tears

  Marcel Proust (1948). “The Maxims of Marcel Proust”

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• People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.

  Marcel Proust

  Death, Thinking, People

  Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained”, Vintage

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• We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.

  Marcel Proust

  Believe, Open Minded, States

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.1240, Wordsworth Editions

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• When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are
  broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.

  Marcel Proust

  Food, Past, Smell

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.63, Wordsworth Editions

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• People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

  Marcel Proust

  Leadership, Sports, Time

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.2432, Jester House Publishing

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• A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.

  Marcel Proust

  Doe, Depends

  Marcel Proust (2008). “Days of Reading”, p.34, Penguin UK

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• 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

  Powerful, Doctors, Ideas

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• There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a person whose sorrow will endure as long as his life. Such grief, felt in such a way is always present, it is never too late to talk about it, never repetitious to mention it again.

  Marcel Proust

  Grief, Long, Sorrow

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

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Reality, Literature

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• What barrier is so insurmountable as silence?

  Marcel Proust

  Silence, Barriers, Insurmountable

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way”, p.151, Modern Library

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• We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Philosophy, Thinking

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• The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is; and this we do [with great artists]; with artists like these we do really fly from star to star.

  Marcel Proust

  Stars, Eye, Artist

  Marcel Proust, Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, Dennis Joseph Enright (1992). “The captive, The fugitive”

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