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Presently, one after another, like shyly hopping sparrows, her friends arrived, black against the snow.

Presently, one after another, like shyly hopping sparrows, her friends arrived, black against the snow.
– Marcel Proust

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  1. The best vaccine against anger is to watch others in its throes. – Marcel Proust
  2. The habit of thinking prevents us at times from experiencing reality, immunises us against it, makes it seem no more than any other thought. – Marcel Proust
  3. The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day. – Marcel Proust
  4. Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude. – Marcel Proust
  5. A book is no mere book anymore than man can be mere man. A book was like an individual man, unmatched and with no cause of existence beyond himself. – Marcel Proust
  6. Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination. – Marcel Proust
  7. Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. – Marcel Proust
  8. We needed germans in Paris to hear Wagner. – Marcel Proust
  9. After a certain age, and even if we develop in quite different ways, the more we become ourselves, the more our family traits are accentuated. – Marcel Proust
  10. But I consoled myself with the reflexion that in spite of everything she was for me the real point of intersection between reality and dream. – Marcel Proust
  11. So difficult is it for us to know, with the dead as with the living, whether a thing would cause them joy or sorrow! – Marcel Proust
  12. She was capable of causing me pain, but no longer any joy. Pain alone kept my wearisome attachment alive. – Marcel Proust
  13. … rejoicing in a peace which brings only an increase of anxiety,… – Marcel Proust
  14. As with the future, it is not all at once but grain by grain that one savours the past. – Marcel Proust
  15. She’s got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy. – Marcel Proust
  16. Sadness had reigned in undisputed sovereignty over his shadowed childhood. – Marcel Proust
  17. The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection. – Marcel Proust
  18. It is often simply from lack of creative imagination that we do not go far enough in suffering. – Marcel Proust
  19. Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were. – Marcel Proust
  20. And then, gradually, the memory of her would fade away, I had forgotten the girl of my dream. – Marcel Proust
  21. that profit which good things bestowed on us by teaching to seek pleasure elsewhere than in the barren satisfaction of worldly wealth. – Marcel Proust
  22. She was not yet dead. But I was already alone. – Marcel Proust
  23. We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full. – Marcel Proust
  24. I must choose to cease from suffering or to cease from loving. – Marcel Proust
  25. in my cowardice I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with suffering and injustice; I preferred not to see them – Marcel Proust
  26. It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions – Marcel Proust
  27. It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed evil. – Marcel Proust
  28. One wants to be understood because one wants to be loved, and one wants to be loved because one loves. – Marcel Proust
  29. To determine not to think of it was but to think of it still, to suffer from it still. – Marcel Proust
  30. Quite half of the human race was in tears. – Marcel Proust
  31. It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as there is a choice it can only be a bad one. – Marcel Proust
  32. When we are nice to others, we generally lose all claim to their respect. – Marcel Proust
  33. … the kiss, the bodily surrender which would seem natural and but moderately attractive… – Marcel Proust
  34. We do not include the pleasures we enjoy in sleep in the inventory of the pleasures we have experienced in the course of our existence. – Marcel Proust
  35. I spent many a charming evening talking and playing with Albertine, but none so sweet as when I was watching her sleep. – Marcel Proust
  36. The beauty of images lies behind things, the beauty of ideas in front of them. – Marcel Proust
  37. Ideas are substitutes for sorrows… – Marcel Proust
  38. …for each of us sees clarity only in those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own. – Marcel Proust
  39. A ‘sadist’ of her kind is an artist in evil, which a wholly wicked person could not be… – Marcel Proust
  40. His [Morel’s] nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is impossible to straighten it out. – Marcel Proust

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