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• One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

  Marcel Proust

  Unhappy, Moral

  Marcel Proust (2015). “In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time”, p.225, Yale University Press

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• Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.

  Marcel Proust

  Spring, Intelligent, People

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.549, Jester House Publishing

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• It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one's head under the cover, giving one's self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors. It is our sweet, our profound, our impenetrable friendship.

  Marcel Proust

  Sweet, War, Lying

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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• The only paradise is paradise lost.

  Marcel Proust

  Paradise, Lost

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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.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, World, Thanks

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Remembrance of Things Past Time Regained”, p.161, Marcel Proust

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• with one image he would make that beauty explode into me.

  Marcel Proust

  Marcel Proust, James Grieve, Mark Treharne, John Sturrock, Carol E. Clark (2002). “In Search of Lost Time: Way by Swann's”

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• Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them.

  Marcel Proust

  Love Is, People, Frustrated

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• Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not the same as our own and of which, without art, the landscapes would remain as unknown to us as those that may exist on the moon.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Persons, Knows

  "In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained".

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• It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.

  Marcel Proust

  Waiting, Moments, Left

  Marcel Proust (2015). “In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time”, p.526, Yale University Press

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• We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.

  Marcel Proust

  Reality, Nurse, Littles

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.917, Delphi Classics

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• A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

  Marcel Proust

  Rainy Day, Weather, World

  "We Can Change the Weather: 100 Cases of Changeability". Book by Marleen Wynants, Sara Engelen (p. 7), 2010.

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• A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

  Marcel Proust

  Inspirational, Strength, Powerful

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.518, Wordsworth Editions

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• Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

  Marcel Proust

  Religion, Literature, World

  Le Cote de Guermantes Pt 1

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• But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unflinchingly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection.

  Marcel Proust

  Past, Essence, Smell

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Swann's Way”, p.50, Vintage

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• The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

  Marcel Proust

  Relationship, Money, Self

  Marcel Proust (1934). “Remembrance of Things Past”

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• Truth is a point of view about things.

  Marcel Proust

  Truth, Views, Truth Is

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• Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.

  Marcel Proust

  Practice, Vices, Profession

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• We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it was intolerable becomes unimportant. We have not managed to surmount the obstacle, as we were absolutely determined to do, but life has taken us round it, led us past it, and then if we turn round to gaze at the remote past, we can barely catch sight of it, so imperceptible has it become.

  Marcel Proust

  Life, Taken, Adversity

  "In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: The Sweet Cheat Gone". Book by Marcel Proust, 1925.

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• When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams. So long as you distract your mind from its dreams, it will not know them for what they are; you will always be being taken in by the appearance of things, because you will not have grasped their true nature. If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. One must have a thorough understanding of one

  Marcel Proust

  Dream, Mistake, Taken

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

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• There are optical illusions in time as well as space.

  Marcel Proust

  Space, Optical Illusions, Illusion

  Marcel Proust (2003). “The prisoner and the fugitive”, ePenguin

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• We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.

  Marcel Proust

  Different, Body, Kingdoms

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.1104, Wordsworth Editions

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• In love, happiness is an abnormal state.

  Marcel Proust

  Abnormal, States

  "In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove". Book by Marcel Proust, 1919.

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• There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

  Marcel Proust

  Book, Reading, Unhappy Childhood

  Marcel Proust (1971). “On Reading”

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• The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.

  Marcel Proust

  Giving Up, Sacrifice, Reality

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.268, Modern Library

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• When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.

  Marcel Proust

  Music, Music Is, Consolation

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

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