Marcel Proust Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)
Marcel Proust quotes and sayings page 5 (deceased author born on Jul 10, 1871). Here's quote # 41 through 50 out of the 55 we have for him.
“What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.”
“People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.”
“Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.”
“No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.”
“Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.”
“Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.”
“Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.”
“The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.”
“Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.”
“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.”
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