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Marcel Proust Quotes - Page 17

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The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct ratio to the swiftness of our passage.

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct ratio to the swiftness of our passage.

Literature, Swiftness, Charm

"In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time".

L'adulte' re introduit l'esprit dans la lettre quebien souvent le mariage e u" t laisse e morte. Adultery breathes new life into marriages which have been left for dead.

New Life, Adultery, Breathe

Habit! that skilful but slow-moving arranger who begins by letting our minds suffer for weeks on end in temporary quarters, but whom our minds are none the less only too happy to discover at last, for without it, reduced to their own devices, they would be powerless to make any room seem habitable.

Moving, Mind, Suffering

Marcel Proust (2015). “Swann's Way”, p.9, Vintage

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.

Laughter, World, Next

A language which we do not know is a fortress sealed.

Language, Fortresses, Knows

Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.909, Delphi Classics

There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living at close quarters with the very vice which he himself has been most outspoken in condemning -- without altogether recognizing it beneath the disguise of ambiguous behavior which it assumes in his presence.

Vices, Assuming, Virtue

Marcel Proust, Dennis Joseph Enright (1992). “In Search of Lost Time: Swann's way”, Vintage

On ne re c° oit pas la sagesse, il faut la de couvrir soi-me" me, apre' s un trajet que personne ne peut faire pour nous, ne peut nous e pargner. We do not receive wisdom.We must discover it ourselves after experiences which no one else can have for us and from which no one else can spare us.

Spares

1919 A' la recherche du temps perdu,'A' l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs'.

A man may have spent his life among the great ones of the earth, who to him have been merely boring relatives or tedious acquaintances because a familiarity engendered in the cradle had stripped them of all glamour in his eyes.

Eye, Men, Earth

Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.346, Modern Library

People who laugh so heartily at what they themselves have said, when it is not funny, dispense us accordingly, by taking upon themselves the responsibility for the mirth, from joining in it.

Responsibility, Joining In, People

Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.2760, Delphi Classics

Pour e crire ce livre essentiel, le seul livre vrai, un grand e crivain n'a pas, dans le sens courant, a' l'inventer puisqu'il existe de j a' en chacun de nous, mais a' le traduire. To write the essential book, the only true book, a great writerdoesnot needto invent becausethebook already exists inside each one of us and merely needs translation.

Book, Writing, Essentials

Le bonheur est dans l'amour un e tat anormal. In love, happiness is abnormal.

Abnormal, Amour, L Amour

La me decine a fait quelques petits progre' s dans ses connaissances depuis Molie' re, mais aucun dans son vocabulaire. Medicine has made a few, small advances in knowledge since Molie' r e, but none in its vocabulary.

Son, Vocabulary, Medicine

Griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some of their power to injure our heart.

Grief, Heart, Ideas

Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.315, Modern Library

The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.

Art, Opportunity, Genius

Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.509, Modern Library

Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

Lying, Men, Self

Marcel Proust (2015). “Remembrance of Things Past: The Sweet Cheat Gone”, p.30, Marcel Proust

The stellar universe is not so difficult to understand as the real actions of other people, especially of the people with whom we are in love.

Love, Real, People

Marcel Proust (2016). “THE PRISONER: A Masterpiece Exploring the Intricacies of Human Nature and Relationships (In Search of Lost Time Series)”, p.173, e-artnow

We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our sorrow, that our love perhaps is our sorrow.

Love Is, Thinking, Suffering

Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.1981, Jester House Publishing

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.

Years, Names, Two

Certain favourite roles are played by us so often before the public and rehearsed so carefully when we are alone that we find it easier to refer to their fictitious testimony than to that of a reality which we have almost entirely forgotten.

Reality, Roles, Forgotten

Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.206, Modern Library

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.

Love, Profound, Literature

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

Real, People, Different

True variety is in that plenitude of real and unexpected elements, in the branch charged with blue flowers thrusting itself, against all expectations, from the springtime hedge which seems already too full, while the purely formal imitation of varietyis but void and uniformity, that is, that which is most opposed to variety.

Art, Real, Flower

I blame the newspapers because every day they call our attention to insignificant things, while three or four times in our lives,we read books that contain essential things. Once we feverishly tear the band of paper enclosing our newspapers, things should change and we should find--I do not know--the Pensées by Pascal!

Book, Knowledge, Insignificant Things

... But all the feelings that evoke in us the joy or the misfortune of a real person are only produced in us through the intermediary of an image of that joy or that misfortune; the ingeniousness of the first novelist was in understanding that, in the apparatus of our emotions, since the image is the only essential element, the simplification which consists of purely and simply suppressing the factual characters is a definitive improvement.

Real, Character, Joy

Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances are that we may be relying on a scientific truth the error of which will be recognized in a few years time.

Mistake, Errors, Doctors

Marcel Proust, Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin, Dennis Joseph Enright (1996). “In Search of Lost Time: The Guermantes way”, Vintage Classics

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