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Inspirational Quotes by Marcel Proust
- There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.
- Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.
- The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.
- My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
- 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…
- Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
- The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.
- People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are.
- Desire makes everything blossom
- That translucent alabaster of our memories.
- The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.
- The most powerful soporific is sleep itself.
- The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
- The heart does not lie.
- In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
- Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
- All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.
- When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
- Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
- The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present.
- The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been great changes.
- I have a horror of sunsets; they're so romantic, so operatic.
- We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another.
- The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
- A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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