Marcel Proust Quotes

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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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  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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  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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  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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• 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.

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  Succeed, Chance, Catching

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

  Marcel Proust

  Desire, Possession, Fades

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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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• The true voyage of discovery is not a journey to a new place; it is learning to see with new eyes.

  Marcel Proust

  Eye, Journey, Discovery

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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.

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  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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• Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

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  Mean, Reality, Love Is

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.4369, Delphi Classics

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• If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

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  Reality, Two, Fantasy

  Marcel Proust (2002). “In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower”, Viking Press

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

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  Love, Inspiring, Dream

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.799, Jester House Publishing

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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.

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  Powerful, Heart, Intelligent

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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.

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  Passion, Inspire, Each Day

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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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• 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.

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  Death, Thinking, People

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

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• We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

  Marcel Proust

  Grieving, Suffering, Healed

  "Remembrance of Things Past". Volume 3,

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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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