Best Marcel Proust Words
- Human altruism which is not egoism, is sterile. Altruism
- Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors. All
- According to a charming law of nature which is evident even in the most sophisticated societies, we live in complete ignorance of whatever we love. According
- We are ordinarily so indifferent to people that when we have invested one of them with the possibility of giving us joy, or suffering, it… Belong
- We are less justified in saying that the thinking life of humanity is a miraculous perfectioning of animal and physical life than that it is… Animal
- When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation. Consolation
- One reads the papers as one wants to with a bandage over one's eyes without trying to understand the facts, listening to the soothing words… Bandage
- It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own mind. Collections
- Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice. Each
- The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present. Fugitive
- It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since, as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad. Bad
- I do my intellectual work inside myself, and once I am with my fellow creatures it is more or less a matter of indifference to… Creatures
- Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying. Asserts
- To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it… Adapt
- There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still more completely, leaving… Beauty
- We must love men more than things, and I admire and weep more for the soldiers than for the churches which were only the recording… Admire
- When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams. So long as… All
- Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make… Affectionate
- The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been great changes. Any
- I have a horror of sunsets; they're so romantic, so operatic. Emotion
- Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing… Acquiring
- Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms. Art
- There are optical illusions in time as well as space. Illusion
- The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for… Artist
- We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another. Flowing
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