Marcel Proust Quotes - Page 12

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• The disinterest [of my two great-aunts] in anything that had to do with high society was such that their sense of hearing ... put to rest its receptor organs and allowed them to suffer the true beginnings of atrophy.

  Marcel Proust

  Aunt, Two, Suffering

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• I should have been happy: I wasn’t.

  Marcel Proust

  Should Have, Should, Should Have Been

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• It is only with the passions of others that we are ever really familiar, and what we come to discover about our own can only be learned from them.

  Marcel Proust

  Passion, Familiar

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Swann's Way”, p.140, Vintage

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• Aristocracy is a relative thing. And there are plenty of out-of-the-way places where the son of an upholsterer is the arbiter of fashion and reigns over a court like any young Prince of Wales.

  Marcel Proust

  Fashion, Son, Aristocracy

  Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's way. Within a budding grove”, Vintage

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• For one cannot change, that is to say become another person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one no longer is.

  Marcel Proust

  Feelings, Different, Continuing

  "In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann's".

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• The truth is that every morning war is declared afresh. And the men who wish to continue it are as guilty as the men who began it, more guilty perhaps, for the latter perhaps did not foresee all its horrors.

  Marcel Proust

  Morning, War, Men

  Le Temps Retrouve (Time Regained) (1926) (translation by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin)

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• But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are close at hand.

  Marcel Proust

  Believe, Mean, Reality

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.31, Modern Library

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• In summoning even the wisest of physicians to our aid, it is probably that he is relying upon a scientific "truth", the error of which will become obvious in just a few years' time.

  Marcel Proust

  Health, Medicine, Errors

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• But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.

  Marcel Proust

  Imagination, Giving, Trying

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• And indeed when we are no longer in love with women whom we meet after many years, is there not the abyss of death between them and ourselves, just as much as if they were no longer of this world, since the fact that we are no longer in love makes the people that they were or the person that we were then as good as dead?

  Marcel Proust

  Years, People, World

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.4472, Delphi Classics

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• There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.

  Marcel Proust

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.775, Wordsworth Editions

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• Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.

  Marcel Proust

  Errors, Triumph, Force

  Marcel Proust (2012). “Swann's Way”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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• Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

  Marcel Proust

  Memories, Window, Photograph

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Within A Budding Grove”, p.513, Booklassic

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• There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.

  Marcel Proust

  Mind, Desire, Resemblance

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

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• Are not the thoughts of the dying often turned towards the practical, painful, obscure, visceral aspect, towards the "seamy side" of death which is, as it happens, the side that death actually presents to them and forces them to feel, and which far more closely resembles a crushing burden, a difficulty in breathing, a destroying thirst, than the abstract idea to which we are accustomed to give the name of Death?

  Marcel Proust

  Crush, Death, Breathing

  Marcel Proust (2010). “In Search Of Lost Time Vol 1: Swann's Way”, p.96, Random House

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• This love of ours, in so far as it is a love for one particular creature, is not perhaps a very real thing, since, though associations of pleasant or painful musings can attach it for a time to a woman to the extent of making us believe that it has been inspired by her in a logically necessary way, if on the other hand we detach ourselves deliberately or unconsciously from those associations, this love, as though it were in fact spontaneous and sprang from ourselves alone, will revive in order to bestow itself on another woman.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Real, Believe

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• Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

  Marcel Proust

  Life, Success, Lying

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

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• The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.

  Marcel Proust

  Imagination, Mind, Slides

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

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• Le style, pour l'e crivain aussi bien que pour le peintre, est une question non de technique mais de vision. For the writer as well as for the painter, style is not a question of technique, but of vision.

  Marcel Proust

  Style, Vision, Technique

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

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• A doctor who doesn't say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured.

  Marcel Proust

  Science, Doctors, Fool

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.1111, Wordsworth Editions

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• Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet.

  Marcel Proust

  Feet, Shadow, Together

  Marcel Proust (1999). “The captive & the fugitive”

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• No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me.

  Marcel Proust

  Liquid, Crumbs, Palate

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Swann's Way”, p.48, Vintage

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• In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted -- atrocious.

  Marcel Proust

  Heartbreak, Encouragement, Inspirational Love

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• Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Quality, Literature

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• Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.

  Marcel Proust

  Pain, Health, Doctors

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

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