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• There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Mind, Desire

  Marcel Proust (2018). “Within a Budding Grove”, p.185, Youcanprint

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• Which of course is followed by: For those who have Awareness, a hint is quite enough. For the multitudes of heedless mere knowledge is useless. Haji Bektash Veli 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

  Spiritual, Journey, Hints

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• The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.

  Marcel Proust

  Sea, Opinion, Appearance

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.1903, Delphi Classics

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• No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book. Everything that seemed to fill them full for others we pushed aside, because it stood between us and the pleasures of the Gods.

  Marcel Proust

  Book, Childhood, Pleasure

  Marcel Proust (1948). “Marcel Proust: A Selection from His Miscellaneous Writings”

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• Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient

  Marcel Proust

  Lying, Doctors, Neurosis

  Le Cote de Guermantes Pt 1

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• It is desire that engenders belief and if we fail as a rule to take this into account, it is because most of the desires that create beliefs end only with our own life.

  Marcel Proust

  Desire, Belief, Failing

  "Remembrance of Things Past".

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• There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.

  Marcel Proust

  Opposites, Ideas, Doe

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.941, Wordsworth Editions

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• I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first appears.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Believe, Mind

  Marcel Proust (1966). “Letters of Marcel Proust”

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• To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it uneasy, to adapt its sensibility to that state.

  Marcel Proust

  Suffering, Needs, States

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.1127, Wordsworth Editions

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• The truth has no need to be uttered to be made apparent, and ... one may perhaps gather it with more certainty, without waiting for words and without even taking any account of them, from countless outward signs, even from certain invisible phenomena, analogous in the sphere of human character to what atmospheric changes are in the physical world.

  Marcel Proust

  Truth, Character, Waiting

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way”, p.80, Modern Library

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• We may have revolved every possible idea in our minds, and yet the truth has never occurred to us, and it is from without, when we are least expecting it, that it gives us its cruel stab and wounds us forever.

  Marcel Proust

  Truth, Ideas, Giving

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Cities of the Plain (Sodom and Gomorrah)”, p.550, Booklassic

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• Poets claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden in which we used to live in our youth. But these are most hazardous pilgrimages, which end as often in disappointment as in success. It is in ourselves that we should rather seek to find those fixed places, contemporaneous with different years.

  Marcel Proust

  Disappointment, Garden, Self

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way”, p.112, Modern Library

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• Habit! that skillful but slow arranger, which starts out by letting our spirit suffer for weeks in a temporary state, but that thespirit is after all happy to discover, for without habit and reduced to its own resources, the spirit would be unable to make any lodgings seem habitable.

  Marcel Proust

  Suffering, Would Be, Spirit

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• I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant, an inanimate object, indeed lost to us until the day, which for some never arrives, when we find that we pass near the tree, or come to possess the object which is their prison. Then they quiver, call us, and as soon as we have recognized them, the spell is broken. Freed by us, they have vanquished death and return to live with us.

  Marcel Proust

  Death, Animal, Broken

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• It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since, as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Relationship, Mistake

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• We strive all the time to give our life its form, but we do so by copying willy-nilly, like a drawing, the features of the person that we are and not of the person we should like to be.

  Marcel Proust

  Drawing, Giving, Identity

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way”, p.236, Modern Library

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• I drank a second mouthful in which I find nothing more than in the first, then a third which gives me rather less than the second. It is time to stop; the potion is losing its magic.

  Marcel Proust

  Giving, Magic, Firsts

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.62, Wordsworth Editions

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• Love is an incurable malady like those pathetic states in which rheumatism affords the sufferer a brief respite only to be replaced by epileptiform headaches.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Headache, States

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• Our virtues themselves are not free and floating qualities over which we retain a permanent control and power of disposal; they come to be so closely linked in our minds with the actions in conjunction with which we have made it our duty to exercise them that if we come to engage in an activity of a different kind, it catches us off guard and without the slightest awareness that it might involve the application of those same virtues.

  Marcel Proust

  Exercise, Mind, Quality

  Marcel Proust (2010). “In Search Of Lost Time, Vol 2: Within a Budding Grove”, p.2, Random House

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• Adultery breathes new life into marriages which have been left for dead.

  Marcel Proust

  New Life, Adultery, Breathe

  1923 A' la recherche du temps perdu,'La Prisonnie' re'.

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• Any mental activity is easy if it need not be subjected to reality.

  Marcel Proust

  Reality, Needs, Easy

  "Sodom and Gomorrah".

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• Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.

  Marcel Proust

  Novelists, Proust, Century

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

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• We ought at least, from prudence, never to speak of ourselves, because that is a subject on which we may be sure that other people's views are never in accordance with our own.

  Marcel Proust

  Views, People, May

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.674, Wordsworth Editions

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• Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, and by the immobility of our conceptions of them.

  Marcel Proust

  Conviction, Conception, Surround

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.27, Wordsworth Editions

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• I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know you, preserved a silence which their individuality as living things made all the more striking, and warmed themselves in the heat of a glowing coal fire.

  Marcel Proust

  Orchids, Fire, Glowing

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.124, Modern Library

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