Marcel Proust Quotes

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing ... -Marcel Proust

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

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Proposes that true healing from suffering can only be achieved by fully experiencing and confronting the pain or challenges involved, suggesting that avoiding or suppressing suffering hinders the healing process, implying that embracing and navigating through difficult experiences is essential for personal growth and resilience.

Time, which changes people, does not alter the ima... -Marcel Proust

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeki... -Marcel Proust

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

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagina... -Marcel Proust

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

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This quote humorously suggests that men who lack imagination should be left to appreciate or pursue attractive women, as they might not appreciate deeper qualities.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and ... -Marcel Proust

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate ... -Marcel Proust

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is gr... -Marcel Proust

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of sayin... -Marcel Proust

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

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.

Love is a reciprocal torture.

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

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This quote metaphorically describes love as an abstract entity that transcends physical boundaries, suggesting that it is experienced and measured by emotional connections and the depths of the heart.

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to ... -Marcel Proust

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth l... -Marcel Proust

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.

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.

Marcel Proust Quotes

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