Marcel Proust Quotes

• We must all indulge in a few follies if we are to make reality bearable.

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• In love, happiness is abnormal.

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• It’s better to dream your life than to live it, and even though you live it, you will still dream it.

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• The real voyage of discovery consists of not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

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  My destination is no longer a place, but a new way of seeing.

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• Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

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  The real voyage of discovery is not in seeking new places, but in seeing with new eyes.

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• Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

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  Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

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• One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.

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• A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on.

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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.

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• There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

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• Death is in truth an illness from which we recover.

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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.

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• 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 this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

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  It comes too soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.

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• All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

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• We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full.

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• Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

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Marcel Proust (88)

Birth:	10th July, 1871
Death:	18th November, 1922
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Critic, Essayist, Novelist

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Marcel Proust was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu. It was published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927.

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