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45 Marcel Proust quotes that honor the genius of this great author

Sometimes we are too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of affairs.

Love is an inevitable, painful and fortuitous disease.

Perhaps the immobility of the things around us is imposed on them by our certainty that these things are themselves and not others, by the immobility of our thinking in relation to them.

We don’t get to change things according to our desire, but little by little our desire changes.

Wisdom is not given to us. It is necessary to discover it for ourselves, after a journey that no one can spare us or make for us.

Love causes real geological surveys of thought.

Days may be the same for a watch, but not for a man.

Sometimes, without knowing it, the future is in us, and our supposedly lying words describe a reality that is close at hand.

Our hearts are as old as those we love.

Love is space and time made sensitive to the heart.

At a certain age, whether out of cunning or out of self-love, the things we most desire are the things we pretend not to desire.

Jealousy is rightly no more than a tyranny applied to the affairs of love.

Men can have various kinds of pleasure. The real one is the one for which they leave another.

It wasn’t the evil that gave him an idea of ​​pleasure, which seemed pleasant to him; it was pleasure that seemed evil to him.

The lands we desire occupy at each moment much more space in our real life than the land where we actually find ourselves.

Our personality is an invention of others.

There are evils for which one should not seek a cure, because only they protect us against more serious evils.

To make reality bearable, we all have to cultivate in ourselves certain little follies.

We only love what we don’t fully possess.

The real journey takes place in memory.

We easily overlook a goal that we cannot achieve or that we have definitely achieved.

It is impossible to find pleasure when we are content to seek it.

You only love what you don’t completely own.

Happiness is beneficial to the body, but it is pain that develops the powers of the mind.

We only heal from suffering after having endured it to the end.

The lost paradises are only in ourselves.

We should thank the people who make us happy… They are the charming gardeners who make our souls bloom.

It is better to dream our life than to live it, although living it is also dreaming.

It’s amazing how jealousy, which spends its time making little false assumptions, has little imagination when it comes to finding out the truth.

There is one thing even more difficult than following a regimen; is not to impose it on others.

Everything that was pleasure becomes a burden when we no longer want it.

What I blame newspapers for is making us pay attention every day to insignificant things, while we read books in which there are essential things three or four times in our lives.

It is considered innocent to desire and atrocious that the other desires.

A clearly understood truth cannot be written with sincerity.

The constancy of a habit is related to its absurdity.

Each considers clear ideas that are in the same degree of confusion as his own.

The end of pain makes us doubt that we have really loved.

Man is the creature who cannot get out of himself, who only knows others in himself, and, saying the opposite, lies.

Desire forces us to love what will make us suffer.

Desire blossoms, possession withers all things.

Time passes and a little of everything we used to call falsehood turns into truth.

For those who love, isn’t absence the most certain, the most effective, the most intense, the most indestructible, the most faithful of presences?

You are only loved when you are not totally possessive.

In her eyes, a smile in which, contrary to what you read on the faces of many humans, there was no irony except for herself.

People want to learn to swim and have one foot on the ground at the same time.

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