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List of Marcel Proust Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 429 inspiring quotes by Marcel Proust.

About Marcel Proust

  • Born: July 10, 1871
  • Died: November 18, 1922
  • Occupation: Novelist
    • In a language known to us, we have substituted the opacity of the sounds with the transparence of the ideas. but a language we donot know is a closed place in which the one we love can deceive us, making us, locked outside and convulsed in our impotence, incapable of seeing or preventing anything.
    Love Ideas Sound
    At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. he had believed he could stop there, that he would not be obliged to learn their sorrows; how small a thing her charm was for him now compared with the astounding terror that extended out from it like a murky halo, the immense anguish of not knowing at every moment what she had been doing, of not possessing her everywhere and always!
    Knowing People Sensual
    A little tap at the window, as though some missile had struck it, followed by a plentiful, falling sound, as light, though, as if a shower of sand were being sprinkled from a window overhead; then the fall spread, took on an order, a rhythm, became liquid, loud, drumming, musical, innumerable, universal. it was the rain
    Rain Fall Light
    Like a kaleidoscope which is every now and then given a turn, society arranges successively in different orders elements which one would have supposed immutable, and composes a new pattern.
    Order Different Elements
    People can have many different kinds of pleasure. the real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
    Real People Different
    The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. nature, like the destruction of pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.
    Nature Nymphs Tree
    If, i can someday see m. claude monet's garden, i feel sure that i shall see something that is not so much a garden of flowers as of colours and tones, less an old-fashioned flower garden than a colour garden, so to speak, one that achieves an effect not entirely nature's, because it was planted so that only the flowers with matching colours will bloom at the same time, harmonized in an infinite stretch of blue or pink.
    Nature Flower Garden
    The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes.
    Eye Land Different
    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.
    Memories Hands Drug
    Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
    Life Art Disappointment
    A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.
    Motivational Dance Dancing
    Perhaps the pleasure one feels in writing is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page; perhaps it is only a secondary state which is often superadded, but the want of which can have no prejudicial effect on it. perhaps some of the greatest masterpieces were written while yawning.
    Writing Yawning Want
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