Marcel Proust on greatness
Marcel Proust79 quotes“Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.”
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Marcel ProustMarcel Proust The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Marcel ProustMarcel Proust The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust 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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