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• Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

  Marcel Proust

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.1178, Wordsworth Editions

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• Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

  Marcel Proust

  Knowing, Enchantment, Firsts

  Marcel Proust, Christopher Prendergast (2002). “In Search of Lost Time: Sodom and Gomorrah”

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• If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

  Marcel Proust

  Luxury, Trying, Literature

  Marcel Proust, Philip Kolb (1983). “Marcel Proust, selected letters, 1880-1903”, HarperCollins

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• The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been great changes.

  Marcel Proust

  History, Doe, Great Change

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.851, Delphi Classics

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• A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and vital than a man of genius who interests us.

  Marcel Proust

  Men, Profound, Feelings

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.316, Modern Library

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• Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists, worlds more different one from the other than those which revolve in infinite space, worlds which, centuries after the extinction of the fire from which their light first emanated, whether it is called Rembrandt or Vermeer, send us still each one its special radiance.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Space, Fire

  Marcel Proust, Joanna Kilmartin (1992). “In Search of Lost Time: Time regained. VI”, Random House (UK)

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• Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.

  Marcel Proust

  Morning, Three, Dear Friend

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• Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be.

  Marcel Proust

  Country, Views, Long

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Swann's Way”, p.423, Vintage

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• Le temps qui change les e" tres ne modifie pas l'image que nous avons garde e d'eux. Although time changes people, it cannot change the image we have already made of them.

  Marcel Proust

  People, Made, Avon

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• I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence.

  Marcel Proust

  Storm, Violence, Coast

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.20, Modern Library

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• She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy.

  Marcel Proust

  Feet, Boat, Undies

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.737, Wordsworth Editions

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• When we are in love, our love is too big a thing for us to be able altogether to contain it within ourselves. It radiates towards the loved one, finds there a surface which arrests it, forcing it to return to its starting-point, and it is this repercussion of our own feeling which we call the other's feelings and which charms us more then than on its outward journey because we do not recognise it as having originated in ourselves.

  Marcel Proust

  Love Is, Journey, Feelings

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.223, Modern Library

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• The images selected by memory are as arbitrary, as narrow, as elusive as those which the imagination had formed and reality has destroyed. There is no reason why, existing outside ourselves, a real place should conform to the pictures in our memory rather than those in our dreams.

  Marcel Proust

  Dream, Memories, Real

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.191, Modern Library

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• How else learn the real, if not by inventing what might lie outside it?

  Marcel Proust

  Real, Lying, Might

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• The one thing more difficult than following a regime is keeping from imposing it on others.

  Marcel Proust

  Discipline, Difficult, Following

  "The Maxims of Marcel Proust".

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• We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another.

  Marcel Proust

  Mind

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• Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

  Marcel Proust

  Men, Imagination, Suffering

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• It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

  Marcel Proust

  Fitness, Cancer, Knowledge

  Marcel Proust (1941). “Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's way. Within a budding grove. The Guermantes way”

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• Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

  Marcel Proust

  Book, Reading, Kind

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• Memory nourishes the heart, and grief abates.

  Marcel Proust

  Sympathy, Memories, Grief

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

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• The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present.

  Marcel Proust

  Past, Fugitive, Remains

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.1278, Jester House Publishing

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• For what we suppose to be our love or our jealousy is never a single, continuous and indivisible passion. It is composed of an infinity of successive loves, of different jealousies, each of which is ephemeral, although by their uninterrupted multiplicity they give us the impression of continuity, the illusion of unity.

  Marcel Proust

  Passion, Giving, Unity

  Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove”, Vintage

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• I do my intellectual work inside myself, and once I am with my fellow creatures it is more or less a matter of indifference to me whether or not they are intelligent as long as they are kind, sincere, etc.

  Marcel Proust

  Intelligent, Long, Intellectual

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• Daughters of the attitude that produced them, certain women will not appeal to us without the double bed in which we find peace by their side, while others, to be caressed with a more secret intention, require leaves blown by the wind, water rippling in the dark, things as light and fleeting as they are.

  Marcel Proust

  Daughter, Attitude, Women

  Marcel Proust (2003). “In Search of Lost Time Volume III The Guermantes Way”, Modern Library

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• Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.

  Marcel Proust

  Reality, Progress, Firsts

  Marcel Proust, Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, Dennis Joseph Enright (1992). “The captive, The fugitive”

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