Best Marcel Proust Thoughts
- There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of… Consciousness
- Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without… Book
- We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. According
- If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure. Elegance
- It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying. Affection
- A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it. Challenge
- Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true. Becomes
- We become moral when we are unhappy. Become Moral
- In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things. Love
- Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. Any
- People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others. Different Kinds
- The only paradise is paradise lost. Inspirational
- What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us. Assume
- Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments. Cruelties
- Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit. Dictated
- People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground. Business
- We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond. Afraid
- Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year… Centuries
- No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden… Blanc
- The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind. Another Person
- The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing. Charm
- Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians. Certain
- Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees. Dark
- The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when… Benighted
- A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then… All
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