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Marcel Proust

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The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.


— Marcel Proust


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It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.


— Marcel Proust


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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.


— Marcel Proust


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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.


— Marcel Proust


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Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.


— Marcel Proust


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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.


— Marcel Proust


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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.


— Marcel Proust


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Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.


— Marcel Proust


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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.


— Marcel Proust


#ask #free #long #lost #men

Love is a reciprocal torture.


— Marcel Proust


#love is #reciprocal #torture






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Did you know about Marcel Proust?

Proust had a close relationship with his mother. Literary historians and critics have ascertained that apart from Ruskin Proust's chief literary influences included Saint-Simon Montaigne Stendhal Flaubert George Eliot Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy. Paris: Bernard Grasset:

1919 Pastiches et mélanges ("Pastiches and mixtures").

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (French pronunciation: ​[maʁsɛl pʁust]; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist critic and essayist best known for his monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time; earlier translated as Remembrance of Things Past).

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