QUOTES by Marcel Proust
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She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy.
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Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.
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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.
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Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
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It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions
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Love...., ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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...Hard people are weak people whom nobody wants, and the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that meekness which the common herd mistake for weakness.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.
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To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion
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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.
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The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing.
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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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The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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One cannot change, that is to say become a different person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one has ceased to be.
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I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence...
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...the memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment..
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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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Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them.
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Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces.
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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 favorite book.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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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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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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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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