--- title: "6 Forgotten Quotes By Marcel Proust" description: "6 Forgotten quotes by Marcel Proust. Plus more from Marcel Proust and more Forgotten sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d36/marcel-proust-114_dreams_and-then-gradually-the-memory-of-her-wou_141812.jpg" --- > [“And then, gradually, the memory of her would fade away, I had forgotten the girl of my dream.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/and-then-gradually-the-memory-of-her-would-fade-away-i-had-forgotten/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d36/marcel-proust-114_dreams_and-then-gradually-the-memory-of-her-wou_141812.jpg) > [Certain favourite roles are played by us so often before the public and rehearsed so carefully when we are alone that we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/certain-favourite-roles-are-played-by-us-so-often-before-the-public/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c16/marcel-proust-114_certain_certain-favourite-roles-are-played-by-us_159149.jpg) > [That which we remember of our conduct is ignored by our closest neighbour; but that which we have forgotten having said, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/that-which-we-remember-of-our-conduct-is-ignored-by-our-closest/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b4/marcel-proust-114_causes_that-which-we-remember-of-our-conduct-is_1656402.jpg) > [An hour or so later he received a note from Odette. Swann had left his cigarette case at her house. "If only,"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/an-hour-or-so-later-he-received-a-note-from-odette-swann-had-left-his/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d9/marcel-proust-114_cases_an-hour-or-so-later-he-received-a-note-f_2046490.jpg) > [“What best remind us of a person is precisely what we had forgotten (because it was of no importance, and we therefore…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/what-best-remind-us-of-a-person-is-precisely-what-we-had-forgotten/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d85/marcel-proust-114_gratitude_what-best-remind-us-of-a-person-is-preci_2252689.jpg) > [So we don't believe that life is beautiful because we don't recall it but if we get a whiff of a long-forgotten…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/so-we-don-t-believe-that-life-is-beautiful-because-we-don-t-recall-it/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ab/marcel-proust-114_beautiful_so-we-don-t-believe-that-life-is-beautif_3127986.jpg) ## Other authors on Forgotten ## More by Marcel Proust > [“machinery' of life at Versailles; and was able, too, to persuade herself that her silence, a shade of good humour or of arrogance on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/machinery-of-life-at-versailles-and-was-able-too-to-persuade-herself/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) > [ “For her \[Françoise\], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both merit and charm. She made so little distinction between… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/for-her-fran-oise-wealth-was-like-a-necessary-condition-without-which/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) > [Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/knowing-does-not-always-allow-us-to-prevent-but-at-least-the-things/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) > [Death is in truth an illness from which we recover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/death-is-in-truth-an-illness-from-which-we-recover/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) > [The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/the-bonds-that-unite-another-person-to-our-self-exist-only-in-our-mind/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) > [...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/a-writer-s-works-like-the-water-in-an-artesian-well-mount-to-a-height/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) > [“Then from those profound slumbers we awake in a dawn, not knowing who we are, being nobody, newly born, ready for anything, the brain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/then-from-those-profound-slumbers-we-awake-in-a-dawn-not-knowing-who/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) > [“Art extracted from the most familiar reality does indeed exist and its domain is perhaps the largest of any.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/art-extracted-from-the-most-familiar-reality-does-indeed-exist-and/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) > [I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/i-find-very-reasonable-the-celtic-belief-that-the-souls-of-our-dearly/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) > [“When you heard anyone in the middle of a talk which was being deliberately kept off the Affair announce furtively some piece of political…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/when-you-heard-anyone-in-the-middle-of-a-talk-which-was-being/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) > [“We betroth ourselves by proxy, and then feel obliged to marry the intermediary.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/we-betroth-ourselves-by-proxy-and-then-feel-obliged-to-marry-the/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) > [“But the old lady on the contrary, far from justifying her daughter’s fears, felt every time someone of her own age “disappeared” that she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/but-the-old-lady-on-the-contrary-far-from-justifying-her-daughter-s/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) > [Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/often-it-is-just-lack-of-imagination-that-keeps-a-man-from-suffering/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) > [“When we are nice to others, we generally lose all claim to their respect.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/when-we-are-nice-to-others-we-generally-lose-all-claim-to-their/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) > [“Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/nobility-is-often-no-more-than-the-inner-aspect-which-our-egotistical/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/forgotten/marcel-proust/#itemlist", "name": "6 Forgotten Quotes By Marcel Proust", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“And then, gradually, the memory of her would fade away, I had forgotten the girl of my dream.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Marcel Proust" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/and-then-gradually-the-memory-of-her-would-fade-away-i-had-forgotten/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d36/marcel-proust-114_dreams_and-then-gradually-the-memory-of-her-wou_141812.jpg", "contentUrl": 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