"63 Marcel Proust Quotes & Sayings

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

Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services.

Marcel Proust

Habit Faculties Dormant Done

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The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.

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Time Passions Disposal Expand

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

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Bonds Unite Person Exist

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With women who do not love us, as with the

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Women Love Knowledge Hope

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It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

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Always Passing Mind State

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things

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Separation Really Love Tender

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One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.

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Say Things Feels Other

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Love is a reciprocal torture.

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Love Reciprocal Torture

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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

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People Dead Affection Faint

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

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Grateful People Make Charming

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The truth is that every morning war is declared afresh. And the men who wish to continue it are as guilty as the men who began it, more guilty perhaps, for the latter perhaps did not foresee all its horrors.

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Truth Morning War Declared

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I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinacy to implore an inclement and pitiless sky.

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Friends Companies Wounded Vanquished

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Every person is destroyed when we cease to see him; after which his next appearance is a new creation, different from that which immediately preceded it, if not from them all.

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Person Destroyed Cease See

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"63 Marcel Proust Quotes & Sayings

Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services.

Marcel Proust

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.

Marcel Proust

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

Marcel Proust

With women who do not love us, as with the

Marcel Proust

It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

Marcel Proust

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things

Marcel Proust

One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.

Marcel Proust

Love is a reciprocal torture.

Marcel Proust

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust

The truth is that every morning war is declared afresh. And the men who wish to continue it are as guilty as the men who began it, more guilty perhaps, for the latter perhaps did not foresee all its horrors.

Marcel Proust

I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinacy to implore an inclement and pitiless sky.

Marcel Proust

Every person is destroyed when we cease to see him; after which his next appearance is a new creation, different from that which immediately preceded it, if not from them all.

Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust Quotes & Sayings

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"63 Marcel Proust Quotes & Sayings

Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services.

Marcel Proust

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.

Marcel Proust

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

Marcel Proust

With women who do not love us, as with the

Marcel Proust

It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

Marcel Proust

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things

Marcel Proust

One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.

Marcel Proust

Love is a reciprocal torture.

Marcel Proust

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust

The truth is that every morning war is declared afresh. And the men who wish to continue it are as guilty as the men who began it, more guilty perhaps, for the latter perhaps did not foresee all its horrors.

Marcel Proust

I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinacy to implore an inclement and pitiless sky.

Marcel Proust

Every person is destroyed when we cease to see him; after which his next appearance is a new creation, different from that which immediately preceded it, if not from them all.

Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust Quotes & Sayings

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