Quotes by Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust

French writer and critic

Lived from: 1871 - 1922

Category: Media | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagFrance

Born: 10 july 1871 Died: 18 november 1922

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  • Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient?
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  • No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.
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  • Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.
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  • Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.
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  • People have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
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  • People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.
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  • People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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  • 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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  • The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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  • The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
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  • 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.
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  • The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves.
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  • The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.
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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.
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  • There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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  • There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.
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  • Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.
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  • Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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  • We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
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  • We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.
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