Marcel Proust Quotes ( Author of Novel In Search Of Lost Time)
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Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time; earlier rendered as Remembrance of Things Past), published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927. He is considered by many to be one of the greatest authors.
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Marcel Proust Quotes
1. Now are the woods all black,
But still the sky is blue.
― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
2. There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
― Marcel Proust
3. If there is one thing more difficult than submitting oneself to a regime it is refraining from imposing it on other people.
― Marcel Proust
4. 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.
― Marcel Proust
5. Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
― Marcel Proust
6. My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
― Marcel Proust
7. Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.
― Marcel Proust
8. We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
― Marcel Proust
9. Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
― Marcel Proust
10. Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
― Marcel Proust
11. There comes in all our lives a time ... when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
― Marcel Proust
12. The only paradise is paradise lost.
― Marcel Proust
13. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
― Marcel Proust
14. Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
― Marcel Proust
15. The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs, and they are powerless to destroy them.
― Marcel Proust
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