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Marcel Proust Quotes(https://friendstamilchat.in/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fa%2Fa5%2FMarcel_Proust_1900-2.jpg&hash=6a9c0d6aac6a64068c3c0149054719025ee2cbf9)
A French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental À la recherche du temps perdu. Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time; earlier translated as Remembrance of Things Past). It was published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927.
Here are some famous quotes by Marcel Proust.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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As soon as one is unhappy one becomes moral.
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It is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Let us leave pretty women to men without imagination.
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The past not merely is not fugitive it remains present.
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If only for the sake of elegance I try to remain morally pure.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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We must never be afraid to go too far for success lies just beyond.
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Any mental activity is easy if it need not take reality into account.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Time which changes people does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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All our final resolutions are made in a state of mind which is not going to last.
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Like many intellectuals he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Less disappointing than life great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
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Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Time passes and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
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What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
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We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire but gradually our desire changes.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms because if one were on good terms one would not part.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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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.
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People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
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If a little dreaming is dangerous the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more to dream all the time.
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It is always thus impaled by a state of mind which is destined not to last that we make our irrevocable decisions.
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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.'
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It is always thus impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last that we make our irrevocable decisions.
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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring in fits and starts.
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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.
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The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism as to treatment of pessimism as to the outcome.
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There can be no peace of mind in love since the advantage one has secured is never anything by a fresh starting-point for further desires.
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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 further desires.
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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.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them: those we spent with a favourite book.
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The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions we feel expand it those that we inspire contract it and habit fills up what remains.
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The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up the rest.
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The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.
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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.
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The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.
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In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.
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That which we remember of our conduct is ignored by our closest neighbour; but that which we have forgotten having said or even what we never said will cause laughter even into the next world.
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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.
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The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future towards a future which has itself become the past and draw us on in their train.
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For each illness that doctors cure with medicine they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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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.
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. Never will the world know all it owes to them nor all they have suffered to enrich us.
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Until I saw Chardin's painting I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house in the half-cleared table in the corner of a tablecloth left awry in the knife beside the empty oyster shell.
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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.
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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.
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I perceived that to express those impressions to write that essential book which is the only true one a great writer does not in the current meaning of the word invent it but since it exists already in each one of us interprets it. The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.