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Marcel Proust Quotes

Marcel Proust quotes

French Author, Writer July 10, 1871 – November 18, 1922

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It was she whom I loved and whom I could not therefore see without that anxiety, without that desire for something more, which destroys in us, in the presence of the person we love, the sensation of loving. Marcel Proust
Although she failed to grasp the meaning of this speech, she did understand that it might belong to the category of 'scoldings' and scenes of reproach or supplication, and her familiarity with men enabled her, without paying attention to the details of what they said, to conclude that they would not makes such scenes if they were not in love, that since they were in love it was pointless to obey them, they they would be only more in love afterward. Marcel Proust
When we are in love, our love is too big a thing for us to be able altogether to contain it within ourselves. It radiates towards the loved one, finds there a surface which arrests it, forcing it to return to its starting-point, and it is this repercussion of our own feeling which we call the other's feelings and which charms us more then than on its outward journey because we do not recognise it as having originated in ourselves. Marcel Proust
Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages. Marcel Proust
People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus. Marcel Proust
Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them. Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust quote: "The most exclusive love for a person is always a love for..."
The most exclusive love for a person is always a love for something else. Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust quote: "What a profound significance small things assume when the..."
What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us. Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust quote: "Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us."
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us. Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust quote: "Love...., ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is..."
Love...., ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come. Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust quote: "In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who..."
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things. Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust quote: "Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain..."
Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians. Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust quote: "Love is a reciprocal torture."
Love is a reciprocal torture. Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust quote: "A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we..."
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love. Marcel Proust
It is the same in life; the heart changes, and that is our worst misfortune; but we learn of it only from reading or by imagination; for in reality its alteration, like that of certain natural phenomena, is so gradual that, even if we are able to distinguish, successively, each of its different states, we are still spared the actual sensation of change. Lygiai taip gyvenime keiiasi ir ms irdis, ir tai skaudiausia; taiau patiriame t skausm tik skaitydami knygas, vaizduotje; tikrovje jos... Marcel Proust

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