There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
MARCEL PROUSTTo write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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