Author Topic: ~ Marcel Proust Quotes ~  (Read 2288 times)

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Marcel Proust Quotes ~
« Reply #30 on: March 23, 2015, 05:18:44 PM »
If a little dreaming is dangerous the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more to dream all the time.

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Marcel Proust Quotes ~
« Reply #31 on: March 23, 2015, 05:22:34 PM »
It is always thus impaled by a state of mind which is destined not to last that we make our irrevocable decisions.

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Marcel Proust Quotes ~
« Reply #32 on: March 23, 2015, 05:23:56 PM »
The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been 'great changes.'

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Marcel Proust Quotes ~
« Reply #33 on: March 23, 2015, 05:24:58 PM »
It is always thus impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last that we make our irrevocable decisions.

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Marcel Proust Quotes ~
« Reply #34 on: March 23, 2015, 05:26:22 PM »
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Marcel Proust Quotes ~
« Reply #35 on: March 23, 2015, 05:27:20 PM »
At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring in fits and starts.

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Marcel Proust Quotes ~
« Reply #36 on: March 23, 2015, 05:28:24 PM »
Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Marcel Proust Quotes ~
« Reply #37 on: March 23, 2015, 05:29:44 PM »
The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism as to treatment of pessimism as to the outcome.

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Marcel Proust Quotes ~
« Reply #38 on: March 23, 2015, 05:30:47 PM »
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.

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Marcel Proust Quotes ~
« Reply #39 on: March 23, 2015, 05:32:06 PM »
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.

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Marcel Proust Quotes ~
« Reply #40 on: March 23, 2015, 05:33:51 PM »
Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Marcel Proust Quotes ~
« Reply #41 on: March 23, 2015, 05:35:06 PM »
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.

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Marcel Proust Quotes ~
« Reply #42 on: March 23, 2015, 05:36:27 PM »
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.

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Marcel Proust Quotes ~
« Reply #43 on: March 23, 2015, 05:37:30 PM »
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.

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Marcel Proust Quotes ~
« Reply #44 on: March 23, 2015, 05:38:41 PM »
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.