Marcel Proust Quotes - Page 2

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

  Marcel Proust

  Change, Time, People

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

  Marcel Proust

  Men, Asking, Intention

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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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• 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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• Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

  Marcel Proust

  Thank You, Thankful, Appreciation

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• with one image he would make that beauty explode into me.

  Marcel Proust

  Marcel Proust, James Grieve, Mark Treharne, John Sturrock, Carol E. Clark (2002). “In Search of Lost Time: Way by Swann's”

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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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• 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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• The heart does not lie.

  Marcel Proust

  Lying, Heart, Doe

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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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• Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.

  Marcel Proust

  Spring, Intelligent, People

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.549, Jester House Publishing

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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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• Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

  Marcel Proust

  Women, Men, Imagination

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.807, Wordsworth Editions

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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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