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Marcel Proust
1871 – 1922 • French • Author
55
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Collected Meditations
Showing 55 quotesA fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.— Marcel Proust
Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.— Marcel Proust
Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.— Marcel Proust
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.— Marcel Proust
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.— Marcel Proust
People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.— Marcel Proust
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.— Marcel Proust
Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.— Marcel Proust
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.— Marcel Proust
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.— Marcel Proust
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.— Marcel Proust
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.— Marcel Proust
The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.— Marcel Proust
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.— Marcel Proust