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Marcel Proust Quotes

French - Author | July 10, 1871 - November 18, 1922

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.

Opinion Others Up Different Made

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

Childhood Book Days Lived Favorite

It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

Mind Resolutions Always Make Passing

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Time People Learn Wish Same Ground

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.

Change Words Year Minds Two Names

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

Love Woman Her Deceive Whom Needs

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

Love Thought Loved Person Who Like

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

Love Separation More Things Tender

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.

Love Small Things Woman Small Things

The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.

Today Moment Tomorrow Grace Fashion

The only paradise is paradise lost.

Paradise Lost Only

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.

Life Man Memory Wise Youth Said

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