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• Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

  Marcel Proust

  Women, Men, Imagination

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.807, Wordsworth Editions

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• The only paradise is paradise lost.

  Marcel Proust

  Paradise, Lost

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

  Marcel Proust

  Time, Lying, Literature

  Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained”, Vintage

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• We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.

  Marcel Proust

  Wisdom, Learning, Journey

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• An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.

  Marcel Proust

  Sound, Climate, Scent

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.289, Modern Library

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• Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.

  Marcel Proust

  Powerful, Heart, Intelligent

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• In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Reality, Literature

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• Love is space and time measured by the heart.

  Marcel Proust

  Missing You, True Love, Best Love

  "In Search of Lost Time, Volume V: The Captive". Book by Marcel Proust, 1923.

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• When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are
  broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.

  Marcel Proust

  Food, Past, Smell

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.63, Wordsworth Editions

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

  Marcel Proust

  Entrepreneur, Decision, Luck

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• Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

  Marcel Proust

  Thank You, Thankful, Appreciation

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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• Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.

  Marcel Proust

  Honesty, Stress, Thinking

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.2105, Delphi Classics

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• The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.

  Marcel Proust

  Passion, Inspire, Each Day

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• The heart does not lie.

  Marcel Proust

  Lying, Heart, Doe

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• Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, World, Thanks

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Remembrance of Things Past Time Regained”, p.161, Marcel Proust

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• We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.

  Marcel Proust

  Believe, Open Minded, States

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.1240, Wordsworth Editions

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• Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

  Marcel Proust

  Communication, Reading, Miracle

  Marcel Proust (1971). “On Reading”

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• Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.

  Marcel Proust

  Spring, Intelligent, People

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.549, Jester House Publishing

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• Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

  Marcel Proust

  Change, Time, People

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• It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

  Marcel Proust

  Inspirational, Anorexia, Tears

  Marcel Proust (1948). “The Maxims of Marcel Proust”

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• The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.

  Marcel Proust

  Giving Up, Sacrifice, Reality

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.268, Modern Library

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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

  Love, Inspiring, Dream

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.799, Jester House Publishing

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• Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.

  Marcel Proust

  Memories, Wander, Our Memories

  1927 A' la recherche du temps perdu,'LeTemps retrouve '.

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• Under each station of the real, another glimmers.

  Marcel Proust

  Real, Reality, Stations

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• There are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an infinite time to climb, and downward-sloping days which one can descend at full tilt, singing as one goes.

  Marcel Proust

  Infinite Time, Singing, Tilt

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Swann's Way”, p.424, Vintage

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