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“We are ordinarily so indifferent to people that when we have invested one of them with the possibility of giving us joy, or suffering, it seems as if he must belong to some other universe, he is imbued with poetry.”

Quote by Marcel Proust

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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

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“We are less justified in saying that the thinking life of humanity is a miraculous perfectioning of animal and physical life than that it is an imperfection in the organization of spiritual life as rudimentary as the communal existence of protozoa in colonies.”

Thinking Mind Spiritual Humanity Animal Existence Organization Imperfection Spiritual Life Justified Miraculous Colony

Book:TIME REGAINED (Modern Classics Series): Metaphysical Novel - Coming to a Full Circle (In Search of Lost Time)

Source: TIME REGAINED (Modern Classics Series): Metaphysical Novel - Coming to a Full Circle (In Search of Lost Time)

“When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.”

Music Music Is Consolation

Book:Letters of Marcel Proust

Source: Letters of Marcel Proust

“One reads the papers as one wants to with a bandage over one's eyes without trying to understand the facts, listening to the soothing words of the editor as to the words of one s mistress.”

Want Trying Facts Eye Listening Paper Newspapers Editors Papers Mistress Soothing Bandages

Book:Remembrance of Things Past Time Regained

Source: Remembrance of Things Past Time Regained

“It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own mind.”

People Mind Tragedy Collections Showcase

Book:Remembrance of Things Past: The Sweet Cheat Gone

Source: Remembrance of Things Past: The Sweet Cheat Gone

“Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.”

Practice Vices Profession

Author:Marcel Proust

“The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present.”

Past Remains Fugitive

Book:In Search of Lost Time: Or

Source: In Search of Lost Time: Or

“It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since, as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad.”

Love Choices Speak Mistake Relationship Bad Relationship Bad Choices

Author:Marcel Proust

“I do my intellectual work inside myself, and once I am with my fellow creatures it is more or less a matter of indifference to me whether or not they are intelligent as long as they are kind, sincere, etc.”

Kind Long Matter Creatures Intellectual Intelligent Fellows Indifference Etc Sincere

Author:Marcel Proust

“Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.”

Knows Men Self Lying Creatures Fellows Contrary

Book:Remembrance of Things Past: The Sweet Cheat Gone

Source: Remembrance of Things Past: The Sweet Cheat Gone

“To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it uneasy, to adapt its sensibility to that state.”

Needs States Suffering Felt Familiar Sensibility Organisms Uneasy

Book:Remembrance of Things Past

Source: Remembrance of Things Past