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with one image he would make t...

with one image he would make that beauty explode into me.

Marcel Proust 449 quotes

Thanks to art, instead of seei...

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists, worlds more different one from the other than those which revolve in infinite space, worlds which, centuries after the extinction of the fire from which their light first emanated, whether it is called Rembrandt or Vermeer, send us still each one its special radiance.

Marcel Proust 449 quotes

Often it is just lack of imagi...

Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

Marcel Proust 449 quotes

I understood that all the mate...

I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant.

Marcel Proust 449 quotes

A doctor who doesn't say too m...

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

Marcel Proust 449 quotes

Neurosis has an absolute geniu...

Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient

Marcel Proust 449 quotes

I should have been happy: I wa...

I should have been happy: I wasn't.

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We think and name in one world...

We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.

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The only thing that does not c...

The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been great changes.

Marcel Proust 449 quotes

I have a horror of sunsets; th...

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

Marcel Proust 449 quotes

Conversation, which is friends...

Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute.

Marcel Proust 449 quotes

Only by art can we get outside...

Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.

Marcel Proust 449 quotes

There are optical illusions in...

There are optical illusions in time as well as space.

Marcel Proust 449 quotes

The artist who gives up an hou...

The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.

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We see things but we don't see...

We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another.

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Perhaps it is not-being that i...

Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel that these phrases of music, these conceptions which exist in relation to our dream, must be nothing either. We shall perish, but we have as hostages these divine captives who will follow and share our fate. And death in their company is somehow less bitter, less inglorious, perhaps even less probable.

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People do not die for us immed...

People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.

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Reading is at the threshold of...

Reading is at the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it. It does not constitute it ... There are certain cases of spiritual depression in which reading can become a sort of curative discipline ... reintroducing a lazy mind into the life of the Spirit.

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I cannot express the uneasines...

I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room I had at last filled with myself to the point of paying no more attention to the room than to that self. The anesthetizing influence of habit having ceased, I would begin to have thoughts, and feelings, and they are such sad things.

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She was 'a woman of uncertain...

She was 'a woman of uncertain age.

Marcel Proust 449 quotes

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