Best Marcel Proust Sayings
- Every kiss provokes another. Oh, in those earliest days of love how naturally the kisses spring to life! So closely, in their profusion, do they… Another Oh
- A doctor who doesn't say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured. Cured
- Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how… Absolute
- People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are. Happy
- It is desire that engenders belief; if we fail as a rule to take this into account, it is because most of the desires that… Account
- Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a… Another Photograph
- Love is an incurable malady like those pathetic states in which rheumatism affords the sufferer a brief respite only to be replaced by epileptiform headaches. Affords
- The stellar universe is not so difficult to understand as the real actions of other people, especially of the people with whom we are in… Action
- Desire makes everything blossom Anticipation
- We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our sorrow, that our… Function
- As soon as he ceased to be mad he became merely stupid. There are maladies we must not seek to cure because they alone protect… Alone
- In summoning even the wisest of physicians to our aid, it is probably that he is relying upon a scientific "truth", the error of which… Aid
- Let us be grateful to people who make us happy. Appreciation
- 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… According
- The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity. Absurdity
- That translucent alabaster of our memories. Alabaster
- And so when studying faces, we do indeed measure them, but as painters, not as surveyors. Appearance
- There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a person… All
- When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were and the souls of the dead from whom we have sprung… Age
- But to ask pity of our body is like discoursing in front of an octopus, for which our words can have no more meaning than… Appalled
- The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter. Duty
- Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner… Awry
- My dear Madame, I just noticed that I forgot my cane at your house yesterday; please be good enough to give it to the bearer… Bearer
- Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals. Book
- Any mental activity is easy if it need not take reality into account. Account
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