Marcel Proust Quotes - Page 7

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• Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.

  Marcel Proust

  Triumph, Achieve, Ends

  Marcel Proust (2003). “In Search of Lost Time: Finding Time Again”, ePenguin

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• Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

  Marcel Proust

  Men, Imagination, Suffering

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• It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions

  Marcel Proust

  Decision, Mind, Lasts

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.556, Jester House Publishing

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• After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become.

  Marcel Proust

  Age, Certain, Obvious

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• Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue.

  Marcel Proust

  Blue, Sky, Black

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.129, Wordsworth Editions

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• But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.

  Marcel Proust

  Lying, Reality, Knowing

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.54, Modern Library

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• Sometimes in the afternoon sky the moon would pass white as a cloud, furtive, lusterless, like an actress who does not have to perform yet and who, from the audience, in street clothes, watches the other actors for a moment, making herself inconspicuous, not wanting anyone to pay attention to her.

  Marcel Proust

  Moon, White, Clothes

  Marcel Proust (2003). “Swann's Way”, Viking Press

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• Habit is, of all the plants of human growth, the one that has the least need of nutritious soil in order to live, and is the first to appear on the most seemingly barren rock.

  Marcel Proust

  Rocks, Order, Growth

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way”, p.152, Modern Library

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• A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.

  Marcel Proust

  Tickets, Theory, Shows

  Marcel Proust (1970). “The past recaptured”, Random House (NY)

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• Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

  Marcel Proust

  Suffering, Physicians, Certain

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.578, Wordsworth Editions

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• For women who do not love us, as for the "disappeared", knowing that we no longer have any hope does not prevent us form continuing to wait. We live on our guard, on watch; women whose son has gone asea on a dangerous exploration imagine at any minute, although it has long been certain that he has perished, that he will enter, miraculously saved, and healthy.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Death, Hope

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• In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Dream, Fall

  Marcel Proust (2016). “Swann's Way”, p.263, Marcel Proust

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• The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in which we situate them for our greater convenience. They were only a thin slice among contiguous impressions which formed our life at that time; the memory of a certain image is but regret for a certain moment; and houses, roads, avenues are as fleeting, alas, as the years.

  Marcel Proust

  Memories, Regret, Years

  Marcel Proust (2003). “In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann's”, ePenguin

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• Memory nourishes the heart, and grief abates.

  Marcel Proust

  Sympathy, Memories, Grief

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

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• Everybody calls "clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.

  Marcel Proust

  Teaching, Ideas, Confusion

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• After a certain age our memories are so intertwined with one another that what we are thinking of, the book we are reading, scarcely matters any more. We have put something of ourselves everywhere, everything is fertile, everything is dangerous, and we can make discoveries no less precious than in Pascal's Pensées in an advertisement for soap.

  Marcel Proust

  Memories, Reading, Book

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

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• ...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.

  Marcel Proust

  Stupidity, Noses, Organs

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.269, Wordsworth Editions

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• A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of worlds. He consults them instinctively upon awaking and in one second reads in them the point of the earth that he occupies, the time past until his arousal; but their ranks can be mingled or broken.

  Marcel Proust

  Time, Sleep, Men

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• A certain similarity exists, although the type evolves, between all the women we love, a similarity that is due to the fixity of our own temperament, which it is that chooses them, eliminating all those who would not be at once our opposite and our complement, fitted that is to say to gratify our senses and to wring our heart.

  Marcel Proust

  Heart, Opposites, Type

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.1182, Delphi Classics

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• A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it. Partaking of the universal community of minds, it infiltrates, grafts itself on to, the mind of him who it refutes, among other contiguous ideas, with the aid of which, counter-attacking, he complements and corrects it; so that the final verdict is always to some extent the work of both parties to a discussion.

  Marcel Proust

  Powerful, Party, Men

  Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove”, Vintage

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• For although we know that the years pass, that youth gives way to old age, that fortunes and thrones crumble (even the most solid among them) and that fame is transitory, the manner in which—by means of a sort of snapshot—we take cognisance of this moving universe whirled along by Time, has the contrary effect of immobilising it.

  Marcel Proust

  Moving, Mean, Years

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.402, Modern Library

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• We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill in the gap.

  Marcel Proust

  Life, Thinking, Names

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• She poured out Swann's tea, inquired "Lemon or cream?" and, on his answering "Cream, please," said to him with a laugh: "A cloud!" And as he pronounced it excellent, "You see, I know just how you like it." This tea had indeed seemed to Swann, just as it seemed to her; something precious, and love has such a need to find some justification for itself, some guarantee of duration, in pleasures which without it would have no existence and must cease with its passing.

  Marcel Proust

  Clouds, Laughing, Tea

  Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove”, Vintage

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• All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Great Work, Great Things

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• It's odd how a person always arouses admiration for his moral qualities among the relatives of another with whom he has sexual relations. Physical love, so unjustifiably decried, makes everyone show, down to the least detail, all he has of goodness and self-sacrifice, so that he shines even in the eyes of those nearest to him.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Eye, Sacrifice

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