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

  Marcel Proust

  Way, Destination, New Ways

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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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• 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.

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

  Marcel Proust

  Desire, Possession, Fades

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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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• 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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• The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.

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  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 only paradise is paradise lost.

  Marcel Proust

  Paradise, Lost

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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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• 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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• Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.

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  Art, World, Thanks

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Remembrance of Things Past Time Regained”, p.161, 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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• 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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• Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

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  Simple, Stupidity, Intellectual

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

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

  Marcel Proust

  Mean, Reality, Love Is

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

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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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• The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

  Marcel Proust

  Habit, Proportion, Absurdity

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• Under each station of the real, another glimmers.

  Marcel Proust

  Real, Reality, Stations

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