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Even his mother, his own mother, had once accused him of being a snob.

Even his mother, his own mother, had once accused him of being a snob.
– Marcel Proust

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  3. As with the future, it is not all at once but grain by grain that one savours the past. – Marcel Proust
  4. 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
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  6. Monsieur Beulier never engaged in thought except to speak the truth, and never spoke except to express his thought. – Marcel Proust
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  8. He remembered his mother’s love for him, and his family’s, and his friends’, and the enemy’s intention to kill him seemed impossible. – Leo Tolstoy
  9. You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes. – Michael Cunningham
  10. The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day. – Marcel Proust
  11. Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude. – Marcel Proust
  12. 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
  13. Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination. – Marcel Proust
  14. Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. – Marcel Proust
  15. We needed germans in Paris to hear Wagner. – Marcel Proust
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. … rejoicing in a peace which brings only an increase of anxiety,… – Marcel Proust
  19. She’s got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy. – Marcel Proust
  20. It is often simply from lack of creative imagination that we do not go far enough in suffering. – Marcel Proust
  21. Presently, one after another, like shyly hopping sparrows, her friends arrived, black against the snow. – Marcel Proust
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  23. And then, gradually, the memory of her would fade away, I had forgotten the girl of my dream. – Marcel Proust
  24. For with the perturbations of memory are linked the intermittencies of the heart. – Marcel Proust
  25. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust
  26. that profit which good things bestowed on us by teaching to seek pleasure elsewhere than in the barren satisfaction of worldly wealth. – Marcel Proust
  27. She was not yet dead. But I was already alone. – Marcel Proust
  28. We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full. – Marcel Proust
  29. It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions – Marcel Proust
  30. 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
  31. … sterile, splendid torture of understanding and loving… – Marcel Proust
  32. One wants to be understood because one wants to be loved, and one wants to be loved because one loves. – Marcel Proust
  33. 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
  34. Quite half of the human race was in tears. – Marcel Proust
  35. 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
  36. … the objects which we admire have no absolute value in themselves… – Marcel Proust
  37. When we are nice to others, we generally lose all claim to their respect. – Marcel Proust
  38. The beauty of images lies behind things, the beauty of ideas in front of them. – Marcel Proust
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