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Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust
French Author
Born: Jul 10, 1871
Died: Nov 18, 1922
Life Love Mind Only People Time
Related authors: Andre Malraux Eliphas Levi Jules Verne Michel Houellebecq Mireille Guiliano Victor Hugo
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust
Friendship Happy Grateful People Be Grateful Our Charming Make Souls Blossom Us Who Let Us Gardener
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust
Travel Eyes Consists Seeking Having New Voyage New Eyes Real Discovery Landscapes
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees. Marcel Proust
Art Ourselves Emerge Only Sees Through Know Another Person
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. Marcel Proust
Happiness Grief Mind Sympathy Beneficial Develops Powers Body
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. Marcel Proust
Wisdom Journey Ourselves Must Take No-One Discover After Spare Us Receive
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves. Marcel Proust
Change World Weather Ourselves Recreate Sufficient
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
Time Dangerous Dream Dreaming More Cure Little Less
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust
Eyes Consists Seeking Having Only New Voyage New Eyes Real Discovery Landscapes
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
Freedom Science Will Men Free Long Lost Think Say Must Never Regress Ask
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. Marcel Proust
Kindness Knowledge Doctor Obey Pay Pain Promise Only Most Make Heed Illness Whom Medical
The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace. Marcel Proust
Today Fashion Grace Tomorrow Paradoxes Had Since Most Deplorable Them Lent Prejudices Moment Novelty Fragile
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination. Marcel Proust
Women Men Imagination Pretty Devoid Leave Us Let Us
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying. Marcel Proust
People Affection Other Our Ourselves Faint Dead Because Dying Them Grows
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. Marcel Proust
Work Book Seen Every Possible Kind Would Finds Writer Never He Merely Perhaps Instrument Discern Himself Reader Without Makes Optical
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees. Marcel Proust
Soul Dark Trees Particular Forest Your Species
Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness. Marcel Proust
People Doctor Intelligence Sickness Three-Quarters Come Doctor Who Understand Least Intelligent Intelligent People Who Medical Need
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond. Marcel Proust
Truth Too Must Lies Never Beyond Go Afraid Far
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. Marcel Proust
Book Our Spent Those Favorite Days Perhaps Childhood Fully Lived
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. Marcel Proust
Alone Great World Our Everything Religions Composed Neurotics Masterpieces Founded
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love. Marcel Proust
Love Needs Woman Our Rarely Another Deceive Loves Whom Her
A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu. Marcel Proust
Made Everybody Others Opinion Up Different Literary Which Then Milieu Fashionable
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments. Marcel Proust
Nature First Neither Habit Prevents Knowing Nor Which Us Second Second Nature
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it. Marcel Proust
Time Day Inspire Our Those Habit Feel Passions Elastic Us Each Each Day Disposal Fills Shrink
Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things. Marcel Proust
Life Our Philosophy Telling Constantly About Contain Himself Us Each Things
Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit. Marcel Proust
Humanity Important Pleasure Lies Moreover Pursuit Perhaps Dictated Essential
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two. Marcel Proust
Change Words Year Our Minds Drastically Names Course Centuries Meanings Two

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