Marcel Proust Short Quotes

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For a long time I would go to bed early.
In French: Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure.

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For a long time I used to go to bed early.

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

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Love is space and time measured by the heart.

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The true paradises are paradises we have lost.

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Love is space and time made tender to the heart.
In French: L'amour, c'est l'espace et le temps rendus sensibles au coeur.

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[Music] a pederast might hum when raping a choirboy.

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Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

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I have a horror of sunsets, they're so romantic, so operatic.

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The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.

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If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

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What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.

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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

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A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.

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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

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Possessing what one loves is an even greater joy than love itself.

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Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.

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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.

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Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.

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The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity.

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The memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment.

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Adultery breathes new life into marriages which have been left for dead.

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The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition.

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For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth.

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A doctor who doesn't say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured.

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A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

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Reading...that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

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The nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.

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