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Marcel Proust Quotes - Page 12

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Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see landscapes which otherwise would remain unknown to us like the landscapes of the moon.

Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see landscapes which otherwise would remain unknown to us like the landscapes of the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists.

Art, Moon, Views

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

Intelligent, Gambling, Doctors

There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.

Mind, Desire, Resemblance

Marcel Proust (1948). “The Maxims of Marcel Proust”

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

Pain, Kindness, Doctors

Cities of the Plain Pt I, Ch. 1,'My Social Life'

The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.

Imagination, Mind, Slides

Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained”, Vintage

Le style, pour l'e crivain aussi bien que pour le peintre, est une question non de technique mais de vision. For the writer as well as for the painter, style is not a question of technique, but of vision.

Style, Vision, Technique

1927 A' la recherche du temps perdu,'LeTemps retrouve '.

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Life, Success, Lying

Marcel Proust (1948). “The Maxims of Marcel Proust”

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.

Fashion, Grace, Prejudice

Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

A doctor who doesn't say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured.

Science, Doctors, Fool

Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.1111, Wordsworth Editions

Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet.

Feet, Shadow, Together

Marcel Proust (1999). “The captive & the fugitive”

...that melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and realise that we have at last begun to live in real earnest, as a grown-up person, the life, the only life that any of us has at his disposal.

Real, Order, One Day

Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.281, Wordsworth Editions

No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me.

Liquid, Crumbs, Palate

Marcel Proust (2015). “Swann's Way”, p.48, Vintage

In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted -- atrocious.

Heartbreak, Encouragement, Inspirational Love

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.

Memories, Window, Photograph

Marcel Proust (2015). “Within A Budding Grove”, p.513, Booklassic

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.

Pain, Health, Doctors

Marcel Proust (1948). “The Maxims of Marcel Proust”

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

Love, Quality, Literature

The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes.

Eye, Land, Different

For theories and schools, like microbes and corpuscles, devour one another and by their strife ensure the continuity of life.

School, Continuity Of Life, Strife

Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.266, Modern Library

Like a kaleidoscope which is every now and then given a turn, society arranges successively in different orders elements which one would have supposed immutable, and composes a new pattern.

Order, Different, Elements

Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.112, Modern Library

The character we exhibit in the latter half of our life need not necessarily be, though it often is, our original character, developed further, dried up, exaggerated, or diminished. It can be its exact opposite, like a suit worn inside out.

Character, Often Is, Opposites

La possession de ce qu'on aime est une joie plus grande encore que l'amour. Possessing what one loves is an even greater joy than love itself.

Love Is, Joy, One Love

Fashions, being themselves begotten of the desire for change, are quick to change also.

Fashion, Desire

Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.777, Delphi Classics

Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel that these phrases of music, these conceptions which exist in relation to our dream, must be nothing either. We shall perish, but we have as hostages these divine captives who will follow and share our fate. And death in their company is somehow less bitter, less inglorious, perhaps even less probable.

Dream, Fate, Phrases

Marcel Proust (2015). “Swann's Way”, p.381, Vintage

We may, indeed, say that the hour of death is uncertain, but when we say this we think of that hour as situated in a vague and remote expanse of time; it does not occur to us that it can have any connexion with the day that has already dawned and can mean that death -- or its first assault and partial possession of us, after which it will never leave hold of us again -- may occur this very afternoon, so far from uncertain, this afternoon whose time-table, hour by hour, has been settled in advance.

Mean, Thinking, Doe

I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room I had at last filled with myself to the point of paying no more attention to the room than to that self. The anesthetizing influence of habit having ceased, I would begin to have thoughts, and feelings, and they are such sad things.

Self, Feelings, Attention

Marcel Proust (2003). “Swann's Way”, Viking Press

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