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Marcel Proust Quotes

A powerful idea communicates some of it's strength to him who challenges it Picture Quote #1

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves Picture Quote #1

Let us leave the beautiful women to men with no imagination Picture Quote #1

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them Picture Quote #1

... the memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment Picture Quote #1

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity Picture Quote #1

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Adultery breathes new life into marriages which have been left for dead Picture Quote #1

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade Picture Quote #1

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude Picture Quote #1

Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much Picture Quote #1

Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language Picture Quote #1

The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition Picture Quote #1

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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another Picture Quote #1

I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence Picture Quote #1

For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth Picture Quote #1

I should have been happy: I wasn’t Picture Quote #1

... the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed Picture Quote #1

Love..., ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come Picture Quote #1

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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces Picture Quote #1

A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness Picture Quote #1

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love Picture Quote #1

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus Picture Quote #1

The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying Picture Quote #1

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think Picture Quote #1

Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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A powerful idea communicates some of it's strength to him who challenges it (Marcel Proust Quotes) A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves (Marcel Proust Quotes) Let us leave the beautiful women to men with no imagination (Marcel Proust Quotes) Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them (Marcel Proust Quotes) ... the memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment (Marcel Proust Quotes) The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity (Marcel Proust Quotes) Adultery breathes new life into marriages which have been left for dead (Marcel Proust Quotes) Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade (Marcel Proust Quotes) Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude (Marcel Proust Quotes) Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much (Marcel Proust Quotes) Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language (Marcel Proust Quotes) The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition (Marcel Proust Quotes) We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another (Marcel Proust Quotes) I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence (Marcel Proust Quotes) For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth (Marcel Proust Quotes) I should have been happy: I wasn’t (Marcel Proust Quotes) ... the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed (Marcel Proust Quotes) Love..., ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come (Marcel Proust Quotes) Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces (Marcel Proust Quotes) A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness (Marcel Proust Quotes) A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love (Marcel Proust Quotes) People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus (Marcel Proust Quotes) The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying (Marcel Proust Quotes) People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground (Marcel Proust Quotes) 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 (Marcel Proust Quotes) Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think (Marcel Proust Quotes) Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them (Marcel Proust Quotes) 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 Quotes)

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