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The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
By Marcel Proust
The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we would fain be cheated and with which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we cheat other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.
By Marcel Proust
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 rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen
By Marcel Proust
Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit
By Marcel Proust
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
By Marcel Proust
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom
By Marcel Proust
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying
By Marcel Proust
It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad.
By Marcel Proust
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
By Marcel Proust
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
By Marcel Proust
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind
By Marcel Proust
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill
By Marcel Proust
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
By Marcel Proust
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
By Marcel Proust
A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped
By Marcel Proust
A catherdral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.
By Marcel Proust
[The literary figure who looms largest in] False Papers ... perfected a language ... and a vision that gave memory an introspection and aesthetic scope and magnitude no author had conferred on either before. He allowed intimacy itself to become an art form.
By Marcel Proust
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.
By Marcel Proust
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
By Marcel Proust