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Marcel Proust Quotes - Page 3

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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Leadership, Sports, Time

Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.2432, Jester House Publishing

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.

Passion, Inspire, Each Day

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

Inspirational, Anorexia, Tears

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

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

Motivational, Success, Lying

The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is; and this we do [with great artists]; with artists like these we do really fly from star to star.

Stars, Eye, Artist

Marcel Proust, Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, Dennis Joseph Enright (1992). “The captive, The fugitive”

For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.

Powerful, Doctors, Ideas

It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.

Waiting, Moments, Left

Marcel Proust (2015). “In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time”, p.526, Yale University Press

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

Book, Reading, Unhappy Childhood

Marcel Proust (1971). “On Reading”

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

Religion, Literature, World

Le Cote de Guermantes Pt 1

A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.

Doe, Depends

Marcel Proust (2008). “Days of Reading”, p.34, Penguin UK

It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one's head under the cover, giving one's self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors. It is our sweet, our profound, our impenetrable friendship.

Sweet, War, Lying

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

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

Relationship, Money, Self

Marcel Proust (1934). “Remembrance of Things Past”

People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.

Death, Thinking, People

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

There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a person whose sorrow will endure as long as his life. Such grief, felt in such a way is always present, it is never too late to talk about it, never repetitious to mention it again.

Grief, Long, Sorrow

Truth is a point of view about things.

Truth, Views, Truth Is

Desire makes everything blossom

Desire, Anticipation

When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams. So long as you distract your mind from its dreams, it will not know them for what they are; you will always be being taken in by the appearance of things, because you will not have grasped their true nature. If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. One must have a thorough understanding of one

Dream, Mistake, Taken

Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.799, Jester House Publishing

The memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment.

Memories, Regret, Moments

Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's way. Within a budding grove”, Vintage

Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.

Practice, Vices, Profession

I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence.

Storm, Violence, Coast

Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.20, Modern Library

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

Rainy Day, Weather, World

"We Can Change the Weather: 100 Cases of Changeability". Book by Marleen Wynants, Sara Engelen (p. 7), 2010.

When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.

Music, Music Is, Consolation

Marcel Proust (1966). “Letters of Marcel Proust”

All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.

Reality, Mind, Easy

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

Women, Men, Imagination

Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.807, Wordsworth Editions

No man is a complete mystery except to himself.

Men, Mystery

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