All Marcel Proust Quotes
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship
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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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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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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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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Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
Marcel Proust
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The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.
Marcel Proust
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It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
Marcel Proust
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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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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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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
Marcel Proust
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