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More Quotes by Marcel Proust
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way
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.
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
