Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust

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Date created: April 2010

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Birthdate July 10, 1871

Zodiac Cancer

Location Auteuil,

Country France

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Marcel Proust Quotes

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

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We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company we spend so many cool, silent, and intimate hours.

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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.

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Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

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The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.

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There is no man...however wise, who has not at some period in his youth said things, or lived a life, the memory of which is so unpleasant to him that he would gladly expunge it. And yet he ought not entirely to regret it, because he cannot be certain that he has indeed become a wise man...

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Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

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I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence...

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...with Mme. de Guermantes things always resolved themselves into luncheons.

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You're as strong as the Pont Neuf. You'll live to bury us all!

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...because he knew that for other people their own social obligations took precedence of the death of a

friend, and could put himself in her place by dint of his instinctive

politeness.

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The variations of the Duchess's judgment spared no one, except her

husband. He alone had never been in love with her, in him she had

always felt an iron character, indifferent to the caprices that she

displayed, contemptuous of her beauty, violent, of a will that would

never bend, the sort under which alone nervous people can find

tranquillity.

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