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More Quotes by Marcel Proust
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.
