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Persons Quotes by Marcel Proust
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
- The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
- Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular…
- No doubt very few people understand the purely subjective nature of the phenomenon that we call love, or how it creates, so to speak, a…
- One cannot change, that is to say become a different person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one has ceased to…
- None of us constitutes a material whole, identical for everyone, which a person has only to go look up as though we were a book…
- Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home, when we have…
- For often I have wished to see a person again without realising that it was simply because that personal recalled to me a hedge of…
- People who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth his while; which…
- The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which…
- ...that melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and realise that we…
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