Marcel Proust Quotes

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love. - Marcel Proust

A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it. - Marcel Proust

A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu. - Marcel Proust

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves. - Marcel Proust

A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped. - Marcel Proust

[The literary figure who looms largest in] False Papers ... perfected a language ... and a vision that gave memory an introspection and aesthetic scope and magnitude no author had conferred on either before. He allowed intimacy itself to become an art form. - Marcel Proust

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