80+ Marcel Proust Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Dignity Existence Photography Reality
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Book Happiness Live Ourselves Reading
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Break Distance Food Past Taste
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Discover Journey Learning View Wisdom World
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Emotion Honesty Life People Thinking
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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Chance Satisfaction Success
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Lost Paradise
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Oneself Opportunity Thinking
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
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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Dream Inspirational Love Time
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Life Moments Wait
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Progress Reality Road
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Believe Mindset Philosophy Possible
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Beginning Creation Deep Philosophy Spiritual Time World
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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Cheating Love Relationship Woman
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

Feeling Habit Inspirational Passion

Marcel Proust Quotes

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