Tag: Marcel Proust
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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
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
Marcel Proust
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We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
Marcel Proust
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Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.
Marcel Proust
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A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody’s opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.
Marcel Proust
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Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
Marcel Proust
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
Marcel Proust
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There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
Marcel Proust
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The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.
Marcel Proust
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
Marcel Proust