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"63 Marcel Proust Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 10 July 1871. Died: 18 November 1922 | Novelist | Critic | Essayist |

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Grateful People Happy Charming
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Real Voyage Discovery Consist
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.

Always Life Keep Above
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

Remembrance Past Things Necessarily
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Happiness Beneficial Grief Develops
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Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

Leave Pretty Women Imagination
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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.

Receive Wisdom Discover Journey
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us

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

Comes Soon Nothing Left
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The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.
True Paradises Lost
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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.

Dreaming Dangerous Dream-less
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

Place New Destination Longer
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude

Reading Fruitful Communication Solitude
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way

Like Many Intellectuals Incapable
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

Desire Makes Blossom Possession
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Healed Suffering Experiencing Full
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them.
Time Change People Image
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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.

Love Fulfilled Vain Frustrated
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

Tears Hard Have Caused
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
Love Space Measured Heart
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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.

Younger Days Dreams Possessing
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

Make Reality Endurable Nourish
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...the memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment..

Memory Particular Image Regret
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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.

Person Different Acquiesce Feeling
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

Final Decision State Mind
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The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing.

Charms Passing Woman Direct
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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

Artist Fail Failure World
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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.

Desire Cut-across Confused Existence
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Happiness Purpose Unhappiness Possible
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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.

Beginning Formed Desire Existence
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Love...., ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
Love Never Unsatisfied Lives
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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

Impelled Mind Destined Irrevocable
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Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
Through Art Emerge Person
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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.

Even Simplest Realistic Countries
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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.

Worst Fear Greatest-hope Powers
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But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine

Instead Imagination Suppose Worthless
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It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying.

Lying Ourselves Cease Notice
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Our desires interweave with one another; and in the confusion of existence, it is seldom that a joy is promptly paired with the desire that longed for it.

Desire Interweave One Existence
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It is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Grief Develops Power Mind
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

One Becomes Moral Soon
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With one image he would make that beauty explode into me.

Image Beauty Explore
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In my cowardice I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with suffering and injustice; I preferred not to see them

Cowardice Man Grown Men
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Mystery is not about traveling to new places but about looking with new eyes.

Mystery Traveling New Places
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And then, gradually, the memory of her would fade away, I had forgotten the girl of my dream.
Memory Girl Fade-away Forgotten
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But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.

Sometimes Future Latent Supposedly
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We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves.

Receive Wisdom Discover Ourselves
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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.

Reality Never Towards Road
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But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are close at hand.

Believe Reality Visible Artificial
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

Must Never Afraid Truth
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People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are.

People Happy Never Think
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Marcel Proust Quotes & Sayings