Best Marcel Proust Quotes
- Everybody calls "clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own. Calls
- Le veritable voyage de decouverte ne consiste pas a chercher de nouveaux paysages, mais a avoir de nouveaux yeux. (The real voyage of discovery consists… Avoir
- The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an… Abide
- Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works… Alone
- The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves. Avoid
- 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… Belief
- We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things. Believe
- I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me. Fool
- My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing. Destination
- Sometimes in the afternoon sky the moon would pass white as a cloud, furtive, lusterless, like an actress who does not have to perform yet… Actors
- There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us… Causing
- A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author. Author
- Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to the reader… Aid
- A certain similarity exists, although the type evolves, between all the women we love, a similarity that is due to the fixity of our own… All
- A person does not...stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans, his intentions with regard to ourself exposed on… Alternately
- The heart changes...but we learn of it only from reading or by imagination; for in reality its alteration, like that of certain natural phenomena, is… Able
- The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as… Appearance
- We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot… Cannot Fill
- No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the… Crumbs
- No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days… All
- The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it.... Little
- The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge. Allowing
- Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes. Develop
- The most familiar precepts are not always the truest. Familiar
- The character we exhibit in the latter half of our life need not necessarily be, though it often is, our original character, developed further, dried… Character
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