Marcel Proust Quotes (123 Quotes)


    Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

    If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

    The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

    Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

    As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.


    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.

    The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.


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

    Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

    The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.

    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.

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

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

    There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.

    I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me.

    A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

    The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic the passions we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it, and habit fills up what remains

    The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.

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

    The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.

    We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorous and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company we spend so many cool, silent and intimate hours.

    The ''sensitiveness'' claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves.


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