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• We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.

  Marcel Proust

  Different, Body, Kingdoms

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.1104, Wordsworth Editions

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• The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

  Marcel Proust

  Habit, Proportion, Absurdity

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

  Marcel Proust

  Grieving, Suffering, Healed

  "Remembrance of Things Past". Volume 3,

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• Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not the same as our own and of which, without art, the landscapes would remain as unknown to us as those that may exist on the moon.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Persons, Knows

  "In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained".

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• But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years - and it opens.

  Marcel Proust

  Doors, Illumination, Years

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Remembrance of Things Past Time Regained”, p.137, Marcel Proust

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• We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Philosophy, Thinking

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• People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

  Marcel Proust

  Leadership, Sports, Time

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.2432, Jester House Publishing

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• How paradoxical it is to search reality for the pictures that are stored in one's memory.

  Marcel Proust

  Memories, Reality, Paradoxical

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• Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

  Marcel Proust

  Religion, Literature, World

  Le Cote de Guermantes Pt 1

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• There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a person whose sorrow will endure as long as his life. Such grief, felt in such a way is always present, it is never too late to talk about it, never repetitious to mention it again.

  Marcel Proust

  Grief, Long, Sorrow

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• We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

  Marcel Proust

  Motivational, Success, Lying

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• The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is; and this we do [with great artists]; with artists like these we do really fly from star to star.

  Marcel Proust

  Stars, Eye, Artist

  Marcel Proust, Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, Dennis Joseph Enright (1992). “The captive, The fugitive”

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• There are optical illusions in time as well as space.

  Marcel Proust

  Space, Optical Illusions, Illusion

  Marcel Proust (2003). “The prisoner and the fugitive”, ePenguin

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

  Marcel Proust

  Waiting, Moments, Left

  Marcel Proust (2015). “In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time”, p.526, Yale University Press

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• 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.

  Marcel Proust

  Powerful, Doctors, Ideas

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• We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.

  Marcel Proust

  Reality, Nurse, Littles

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.917, Delphi Classics

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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

  Book, Reading, Unhappy Childhood

  Marcel Proust (1971). “On Reading”

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• It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one's head under the cover, giving one's self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors. It is our sweet, our profound, our impenetrable friendship.

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  Sweet, War, Lying

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

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• The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

  Marcel Proust

  Relationship, Money, Self

  Marcel Proust (1934). “Remembrance of Things Past”

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• People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.

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  Death, Thinking, People

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

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• A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.

  Marcel Proust

  Doe, Depends

  Marcel Proust (2008). “Days of Reading”, p.34, Penguin UK

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• When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams. So long as you distract your mind from its dreams, it will not know them for what they are; you will always be being taken in by the appearance of things, because you will not have grasped their true nature. If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. One must have a thorough understanding of one

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  Dream, Mistake, Taken

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

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• When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.

  Marcel Proust

  Music, Music Is, Consolation

  Marcel Proust (1966). “Letters of Marcel Proust”

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• Truth is a point of view about things.

  Marcel Proust

  Truth, Views, Truth Is

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• Desire makes everything blossom

  Marcel Proust

  Desire, Anticipation

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