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Posted on Oct 24, 2008 under Critic, M, Marcel Proust, À la recherche du temps perdu | No CommentMarcel Proust Love Quotes and Sayings
1. In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
2. What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
3. In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.
4. People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature as insignificant as the comma bacillus.
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Excerpt from Wikipedia: Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, critic and essayist best known for his monumental À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time; earlier translated as Remembrance of Things Past). It was published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927.
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Famous Sayings by Marcel Proust
1. As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
2. 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.
3. If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
4. In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one’s life.
5. Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
6. Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
7. We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
8. We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
9. Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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