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~ Marcel Proust Quotes ~
« on: March 23, 2015, 04:40:00 PM »
Marcel Proust Quotes


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.




The only paradise is paradise lost.

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« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2015, 04:41:00 PM »
As soon as one is unhappy one becomes moral.

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« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2015, 04:41:28 PM »
It is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

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« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2015, 04:42:10 PM »
Let us leave pretty women to men without imagination.

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« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2015, 04:42:39 PM »
The past not merely is not fugitive it remains present.

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« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2015, 04:43:05 PM »
If only for the sake of elegance I try to remain morally pure.

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« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2015, 04:43:31 PM »
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

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« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2015, 04:44:03 PM »
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

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« Reply #8 on: March 23, 2015, 04:44:35 PM »
We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

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« Reply #9 on: March 23, 2015, 04:45:11 PM »
We must never be afraid to go too far for success lies just beyond.

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« Reply #10 on: March 23, 2015, 04:45:52 PM »
Any mental activity is easy if it need not take reality into account.

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« Reply #11 on: March 23, 2015, 04:46:26 PM »
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

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« Reply #12 on: March 23, 2015, 04:47:02 PM »
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

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« Reply #13 on: March 23, 2015, 04:47:41 PM »
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

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« Reply #14 on: March 23, 2015, 04:48:12 PM »
Time which changes people does not alter the image we have retained of them.