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Quote by Marcel Proust

“My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.”

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Marcel Proust was a French novelist renowned for his magnum opus, 'In Search of Lost Time'. This novel is considered a classic of 20th-century literature, known for its intricate psychological portrayals and profound exploration of memory. more

“Sometimes in the afternoon sky the moon would pass white as a cloud, furtive, lusterless, like an actress who does not have to perform yet and who, from the audience, in street clothes, watches the other actors for a moment, making herself inconspicuous, not wanting anyone to pay attention to her.”

Doe Sometimes Moments Actors White Pay Attention Watches Audience Sky Streets Moon Clothes Clouds Actresses Pay Attention Afternoon

Book:Swann's Way

Source: Swann's Way

“There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.”

World Truth Suffering Possession

Book:Remembrance of Things Past

Source: Remembrance of Things Past

“A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.”

Men Reading Letters Merit Phrases Literary Merit

Book:Swann's Way

Source: Swann's Way

“Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to the reader to enable the latter to discover in himself what he would not have found but for the aid of the book.”

Book Found Reader Offers Instruments Aids Latter

Book:Remembrance of Things Past

Source: Remembrance of Things Past

Heart Certain Type Opposites Dues Senses Evolve Temperament Similarity Eliminating Complement

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)

“A person does not...stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans, his intentions with regard to ourself exposed on his surface...but is a shadow which we can never succeed in penetrating...a shadow behind which we can alternately imagine, with equal justification, that there burns the flame of hatred and of love.”

Persons Doe Eye Behinds Clear Imagine Plans Succeed Equal Shadow Hatred Regard Intention Surface Flames Merit Exposed Justification Defects

Author:Marcel Proust

“The heart changes...but we learn of it only from reading or by imagination; for in reality its alteration, like that of certain natural phenomena, is so gradual that, even if we are able to distinguish, successively, each of its different states, we are still spared the actual sensation of change.”

Ifs Heart Stills Different States Reality Able Certain Reading Imagination Natural Sensations Alterations Natural Phenomena

Author:Marcel Proust

“The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.”

Opinion Sea Relation Appearance Permanent Fluid Kinfolk

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)

“We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill in the gap.”

Thinking World Life Feels Two Names Gaps

Author:Marcel Proust

“No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me.”

Happenings Extraordinary Warm Ran Touched Liquid Extraordinary Things Crumbs Palate Madeleines

Book:Swann's Way

Source: Swann's Way

Quote by Marcel Proust

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