All Marcel Proust Quotes
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
Marcel Proust
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust in
Friendship
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Marcel Proust
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Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
Marcel Proust
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Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
Marcel Proust
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
Marcel Proust
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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
Marcel Proust
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A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
Marcel Proust
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The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
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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 qualities or advantages.
Marcel Proust in
Love
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
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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 which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
Marcel Proust
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
Marcel Proust
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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
Marcel Proust
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