Marcel Proust Quotes

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

  Marcel Proust

  Way, Destination, New Ways

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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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• 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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• 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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• Truth is a point of view about things.

  Marcel Proust

  Truth, Views, Truth Is

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

  Marcel Proust

  Desire, Possession, Fades

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• The heart does not lie.

  Marcel Proust

  Lying, Heart, Doe

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

  Marcel Proust

  Friendship, Change, Perspective

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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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• Love is space and time measured by the heart.

  Marcel Proust

  Missing You, True Love, Best Love

  "In Search of Lost Time, Volume V: The Captive". Book by Marcel Proust, 1923.

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