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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

Marcel Proust
Desire, Possession, Fades

Desire makes everything blossom

Marcel Proust
Desire, Anticipation

For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.

Marcel Proust
Love Is, Anxiety, Desire
Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.3648, Delphi Classics

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.

Marcel Proust
Confused, Cutting, Desire
Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.79, Modern Library

The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.

Marcel Proust
Knowledge, Desire, Tiny
Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.236, Wordsworth Editions

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

Marcel Proust
Mind, Desire, Resemblance
Marcel Proust (1948). “The Maxims of Marcel Proust”

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

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

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

Marcel Proust
Change, Desire, Literature
Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.817, Wordsworth Editions

There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.

Marcel Proust
Love, Mind, Desire
Marcel Proust (2018). “Within a Budding Grove”, p.185, Youcanprint

It is desire that engenders belief and if we fail as a rule to take this into account, it is because most of the desires that create beliefs end only with our own life.

Marcel Proust
Desire, Belief, Failing
"Remembrance of Things Past".

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