77 Quotations by Marcel Proust
- 1. A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.
![A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.. Marcel Proust.](/img/view.gif)
- 2. A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
![A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.. Marcel Proust.](/img/view.gif)
- 3. A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
![A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.. Marcel Proust.](/img/view.gif)
- 4. A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not l ...
![A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not l .... Marcel Proust.](/img/view.gif)
- 5. A woman we love rarely satisfies all our needs, and we deceive her with a woman whom we do not love.
![A woman we love rarely satisfies all our needs, and we deceive her with a woman whom we do not love.. Marcel Proust.](/img/view.gif)
- 6. A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
![A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.. Marcel Proust.](/img/view.gif)
- 7. All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
![All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.. Marcel Proust.](/img/view.gif)
- 8. Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An ...
![Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An .... Marcel Proust.](/img/view.gif)
- 9. Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
![Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.. Marcel Proust.](/img/view.gif)
- 10. Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it p ...
![Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it p .... Marcel Proust.](/img/view.gif)
- 11. Everybody calls "clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.
![Everybody calls](/img/view.gif)
- 12. Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and compos ...
![Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and compos .... Marcel Proust.](/img/view.gif)
- 13. Everything great that we know has come from neurotics… never will the world be aware of how much it ...
![Everything great that we know has come from neurotics… never will the world be aware of how much it .... Marcel Proust.](/img/view.gif)
- 14. For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating ...
![For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating .... Marcel Proust.](/img/view.gif)
- 15. Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
![Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.. Marcel Proust.](/img/view.gif)
- 16. Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
![Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.. Marcel Proust.](/img/view.gif)
- 17. I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true ...
![I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true .... Marcel Proust.](/img/view.gif)
- 18. I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had a ...
![I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had a .... Marcel Proust.](/img/view.gif)
- 19. If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream ...
![If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream .... Marcel Proust.](/img/view.gif)
- 20. Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge we make promise only; pain ...
![Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge we make promise only; pain .... Marcel Proust.](/img/view.gif)
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