A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.
More Quotes from Marcel Proust:
If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much a garden of flowers as of colours and tones, less an oldfashioned flower garden than a colour garden, so to speak, one that achieves an effect not entirely nature's, because it was planted so that only the flowers with matching colours will bloom at the same time, harmonized in an infinite stretch of blue or pink.Marcel Proust
The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves.
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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.
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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
Though time changes people, it does not alter the image we have kept of them.
Marcel Proust
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