Marcel Proust Quotes
Quotes
Literature“We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.”
Marcel ProustQuotes
Literature“ How can you expect Cottard to be able to treat you? He has made allowances for the difficulty of digesting sauces, for gastric trouble, but he has made no allowance for the effect of reading Shakespeare.”
Marcel ProustQuotes
Literature“Even the simple act which we describe as 'seeing someone we know' is, to some extent, an intellectual process. ”
Marcel ProustQuotes
Literature“ How often is not the prospect of future happiness thus sacrificed to one's impatient insistence upon an immediate gratification. ”
Marcel ProustQuotes
Literature“ In my cowardice I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with suffering and injustice; I preferred not to see them ”
Marcel ProustQuotes
Literature“ For, medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances are that we may be relying on a scientific truth the error of which will be recognized in a few years time. ”
Marcel ProustQuotes
Literature“ Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. ”
Marcel ProustQuotes
Literature“ Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; ”
Marcel ProustQuotes
Literature“ And so it is with our own past. It is a labor in vain to recapture it: all the efforts of our intellect must prove futile. ”
Marcel ProustQuotes
Literature“ The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost. ”
Marcel ProustQuotes
Literature“ With intelligent people, three-quarters of the things they suffer from come from their intelligence. ”
Marcel ProustQuotes
Literature“ 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. ”
Marcel ProustQuotes
Literature“ Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, and by the immobility of our conceptions of them. ”
Marcel ProustQuotes
Literature“ The past is hidden somewhere outside the realm, beyond the reach of intellect, in some material object (in the sensation which that material object will give us) which we do not suspect. ”
Marcel ProustQuotes
Literature“ Because happiness alone is good for the body; whereas sorrow develops the strength of the mind. ”
Marcel ProustQuotes
Literature“ Happiness is good for the body, but it is grief which develops the strengths of the mind. ”
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