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In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted, atrocious


Marcel Proust

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MARCEL PROUST In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground...
MARCEL PROUST I put down my cup and examine my own mind. It is for it to discover the truth. But how? What an abys...
MARCEL PROUST Now my uncle knew many of them [actresses] personally, and also ladies of another class, not clearly...
MARCEL PROUST She observed the dumb-show by which her neighbour was expressing her passion for music, but she refr...
MARCEL PROUST We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves.
MARCEL PROUST Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be ...
MARCEL PROUST The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, th...
MARCEL PROUST Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.
MARCEL PROUST As soon as one is unhappy one becomes moral
MARCEL PROUST We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The ...
MARCEL PROUST Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruel...
MARCEL PROUST The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes
MARCEL PROUST In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feel...
MARCEL PROUST It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused
MARCEL PROUST It was fortunate that I had not already yielded to the temptation to break with Albertine; the tediu...
MARCEL PROUST It was not only Odette's indifference, however, that he must take pains to circumvent; it was also, ...
MARCEL PROUST Perhaps she would not have thought of wickedness as a state so rare, so abnormal, so exotic, one whi...
MARCEL PROUST [T]his jealousy gave him, if anything, an agreeable chill, as, to the sad Parisian who is leaving Ve...
MARCEL PROUST My mother repressed a shudder of apprehension, for, being more rapid in perception than my father, s...
MARCEL PROUST These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decid...
MARCEL PROUST The thirst for something other than what we have…to bring something new, even if it is worse, some...
MARCEL PROUST It was in the defects that they [servants] invariably acquired that I learned of my own natural, inv...
MARCEL PROUST Es mejor soñar una vida que vivirla, aunque vivirla siga siendo soñarla, pero menos misteriosament...
MARCEL PROUST Para estar al borde del mar no hay más que cerrar los ojos.
MARCEL PROUST