Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust

"Now there is one thing I can tell you: you will enjoy certain pleasures you would not fathom now. When you still had your mother you often thought of the days when you would have her no longer. Now you will often think of days past when you had her. When you are used to this horrible thing that they will forever be cast into the past, then you will gently feel her revive, returning to take her place, her entire place, beside you. At the present time, this is not yet possible. Let yourself be inert, wait till the incomprehensible power ... that has broken you restores you a little, I say a little, for henceforth you will always keep something broken about you. Tell yourself this, too, for it is a kind of pleasure to know that you will never love less, that you will never be consoled, that you will constantly remember more and more."
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"Now there is one thing I can tell you: you will enjoy certain pleasures you would not fathom now. When you still had your mother you often thought of the days when you would have her no longer. Now you will often think of days past when you had her. When you are used to this horrible thing that they will forever be cast into the past, then you will gently feel her revive, returning to take her place, her entire place, beside you. At the present time, this is not yet possible. Let yourself be inert, wait till the incomprehensible power ... that has broken you restores you a little, I say a little, for henceforth you will always keep something broken about you. Tell yourself this, too, for it is a kind of pleasure to know that you will never love less, that you will never be consoled, that you will constantly remember more and more."
Marcel Proust
"People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad."
Marcel Proust
"A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves."
Marcel Proust The Guermantes 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."
Marcel Proust Time Regained
"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book."
Marcel Proust Days of Reading
"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
"A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves."
Marcel Proust
"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
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
Marcel Proust
"Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees."
Marcel Proust
"We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond."
Marcel Proust
"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."
Marcel Proust
"Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey."
Marcel Proust
"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
"Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination."
Marcel Proust
"Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true."
Marcel Proust
"Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way."
Marcel Proust
"Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness."
Marcel Proust
"Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible."
Marcel Proust
"Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind."
Marcel Proust
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