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Marcel Proust Inspirational Quotes (231)

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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and vital than a man of genius who interests us.
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Love is a reciprocal torture.
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Even the simple act that we call going to visit a person of our acquaintance is in part an intellectual act. We fill the physical appearance of the person we see with all the notions we have about him, and in the totality of our impressions about him, these notions play the most important role.
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There are people whose faces assume an unaccustomed beauty and majesty the moment they cease to look out of their eyes.
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No doubt very few people understand the purely subjective nature of the phenomenon that we call love, or how it creates, so to speak, a supplementary person, distinct from the person whom the world knows by the same name, a person most of whose constituent elements are derived from ourselves.
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We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company we spend so many cool, silent, and intimate hours.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts.
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Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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We strive all the time to give our life its form, but we do so by copying willy-nilly, like a drawing, the features of the person that we are and not of the person we should like to be.
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Women who are to some extent resistant, whom one cannot possess at once, whom one does not even know at first whether one will ever possess, are the only interesting ones.
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We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another.
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The only possible paradises are those we have lost
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We believe we can change things according to our wishes because that's the only happy solution we can see. We don't think of what usually happens and what is also a happy solution things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.
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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.
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We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.
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Aristocracy is a relative thing. And there are plenty of out-of-the-way places where the son of an upholsterer is the arbiter of fashion and reigns over a court like any young Prince of Wales.
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That which we remember of our conduct is ignored by our closest neighbour but that which we have forgotten having said, or even what we never said, will cause laughter even into the next world.
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Wars are fought for the benefit of oligarchs, triumphs bought with the blood of peons.
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The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished they did not engender those beliefs, and they are powerless to destroy them.
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I should have been happy: I wasn’t.
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