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Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

Marcel Proust

Intelligent, Gambling, Doctors

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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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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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Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

Marcel Proust

Pain, Kindness, Doctors

Cities of the Plain Pt I, Ch. 1,'My Social Life'

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Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see landscapes which otherwise would remain unknown to us like the landscapes of the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists.

Marcel Proust

Art, Moon, Views

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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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The character we exhibit in the latter half of our life need not necessarily be, though it often is, our original character, developed further, dried up, exaggerated, or diminished. It can be its exact opposite, like a suit worn inside out.

Marcel Proust

Character, Often Is, Opposites

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This dim coolness of my room was to the broad daylight of the street what the shadow is to the sunbeam, that is to say equally luminous, and presented to my imagination the entire panorama of summer, which my senses, if I had been out walking, could have tasted and enjoyed only piecemeal; and so it was quite in harmony with my state of repose which (thanks to the enlivening adventures related in my books) sustained, like a hand reposing motionless in a stream of running water, the shock and animation of a torrent of activity.

Marcel Proust

Summer, Running, Book

Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume I: Swann's Way (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.131, Modern Library

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For theories and schools, like microbes and corpuscles, devour one another and by their strife ensure the continuity of life.

Marcel Proust

School, Continuity Of Life, Strife

Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.266, Modern Library

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Born: July 10, 1871
Died: November 18, 1922
Occupation: Novelist
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