Quotes by Marcel Proust

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  • The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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  • There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible.
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  • Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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  • Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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  • All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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  • 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 charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing.
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  • The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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  • The only paradise is paradise lost.
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  • It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad.
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  • One of a hostess's duties is to act as procuress.
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  • We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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  • If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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  • We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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  • The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.
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