80+ Marcel Proust Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

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.
MARCEL PROUST

Ears Listening Moon Music Silence Time
It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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Beauty Possible Promise
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Deep Love Reality
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Darkness Soul Tree
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul
The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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Atheist Creation Perfection
The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Eyes Life Philosophy Travel
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Happiness People Thinking
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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Heart Love Space Time
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.
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Existence Give Up Reality Sacrifice
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Courage Eyes Opinion
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Discover Eyes Inspirational Life Philosophy
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
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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Affection Dying Fade Growth Literature People
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering

Marcel Proust Quotes

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