80+ Marcel Proust Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

To 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.
MARCEL PROUST

Book Existence Greatness Humility Writing
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Art Ourselves See World
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Practice Profession Recognition Vice
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Hypocrite Leadership People Sports Time
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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Imperfection Judgement View
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Deep Sound Time
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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Art Deep Thankful World
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Freedom Lost Men Science Thinking
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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Doctor Health Ideas Oneself People Powerful
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Body Depression Grief Happiness Mindset Power Sympathy
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Discover Ourselves Wisdom
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Greatness Literature Religion World

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