Quotes by Marcel Proust

About Marcel Proust:

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust is considered by many to be one of the greatest authors of all time.
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Quando Odette deixasse de ser para ele uma criatura sempre ausente, cobiçada, imaginária, quando o sentimento que ele tinha por ela não fosse mais aquela mesma perturbação misteriosa que lhe causava a frase da sonata e sim afeto, reconhecimento,...

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Ele só teve um momento de frieza, com o Dr. Cottard: vendo-o piscar o olho e sorrir-lhe com um ar ambíguo antes que se tivessem falado (mímica que Cottard chamava de "deixar fluir"), Swann acreditou que o médico o conheci sem dúvida por ter esta...

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In the case of the solitary, his seclusion, even when it is absolute and ends only with life itself, has often as its primary cause a disordered love of the crowd, which so far overruled every other feeling that, not being able to win, when he goes o...

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We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening. The truth which one puts into one's words does not carve out a direct path for itself, it is not irresistibly self-evident. A considerable time must elapse bef...

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That our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people desire from their own substance, a meaning widely different from that which we had put into the same words when we uttered them, is ...

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I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence...

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

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The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

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

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If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

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It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

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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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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

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The only paradise is paradise lost.

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

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We become moral when we are unhappy.

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People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

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Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

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We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.

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Author Bio

  • NameMarcel Proust
  • DescriptionFrench novelist, critic, and essayist
  • AliasesValentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust
  • BornJuly 10, 1871
  • DiedNovember 18, 1922
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionLibrarian; Novelist; Essayist
  • WorksWithin A Budding Grove
  • AwardsPrix Goncourt; Knight Of The Legion Of Honour